Flourishing

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flourishing

Title text: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent me, but I didn't know if he'd want to be associated with with it technically called Choculatio. Email me sir, if it is otherwise.

Votey

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Professor, all these ethical systems talk about "human flourishing" but I have no idea what it means.

Oh, that's easy. "human flourishing" comes from the ancient greek concept of "eudaimonia" which translates as "pleasure that is officially approved by philosophers."

If you can start a sentence with "every human being deserves to experience... and then end the sentence with a straight face, it's human flourishing. Love, compassion, beauty, truth, the sublime.

This is why you can't "experience eudaimonia" by getting a blow job while eating count chocula.

You seem to reject these ideas.

Yes, I'm what's called a fellatio utilitarian.

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I derive a lot of eudaimonia from living an unexamined life.

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