(highlight:: Achieving Happiness Through Self-Interest
Summary:
Happiness is deemed the ultimate good by Robert Ingersoll, emphasizing the importance of being happy now and here, and spreading happiness to others.
It is seen as common sense to intertwine helping others with a fulfilling life. Promoting ethics through self-interest is highlighted, showing how historical figures with strong moral principles lead flourishing lives.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
This seems very much a part of the perspective of Robert Ingersoll, the 19th century agnostic activist. He declares, happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. What marvelous, down -to -earth common sense! It wraps commitment to help others into a rewarding life. Reinforcing good behavior by spreading the ethical news seems a noble goal in life. What better way to promote ethics than to see how it's in our self -interest? I'm struck by how historical figures who have strong moral conscience seem to live such flourishing lies.)
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