Happy Days - How to make It in the Afterlife

2009-06-27 08:31 AM

Frank K
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 27

Simon Critchley in this June 23, 2009 NYT Opinion article, writes about the concept of the "afterlife".

He suggests that "happiness does not consist in whatever you might be feeling — after death, of course, you might not be feeling much at all — but in what others feel about you. It consists more precisely in the stories that can be told about you after your death. This is what the Greeks called “glory,” and it expresses a very different understanding of immortality than is common amongst us. One lives on only through the stories, accounts and anecdotes that are told about one. It is in this that happiness consists."

And as such, Critchley writes: "Why doesn’t it make much better sense to live in such a way — to act kindly, fairly, courageously, decently — in such a way that happiness is something that others might ascribe to you after you are gone?"

Food for thought.

2010-01-27 05:07 AM

Blaze Armstrong
Quezon City, Philippines
Posts: 10

That's a wonderful incentive to live a good life. Here's to immortality.