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Looking ahead to my presentation in over a month:-

First thoughts to explore - what is it that makes us feel good?

Which will follow on from a previous theme below!

Geoff

The virtuous life is the good life

I'm thinking along the lines that the desired goal is to feel good about oneself.

I can't imagine anyone who would disagree with that.

As Denis pointed out yesterday (well that's what I thought when he commented), different people have different ways of feeling good.

Killing others that don't share your view of what is important is one way that people have operated in the past and presumably made them feel good.

Accumulating money is another.

So is the question - "Are some levels of feeling good, higher/more enjoyable than others?" ?

Do we have free will?

Do we have the strength of will to exercise it?