Esther,
If I happened to read your post earlier, I should have told you that Manley actually did posted the link of the lecture in his blog that you can read online.
http://mrmanleysclass.blogspot.com/2009/09/link-to-banach-lecture-online.html
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sartrelecture.htm
Anyway, I think you still got the idea and you did touch the topic that he asked us to write about- human happiness. I have to agree with your own definition of happiness. I like the way you put it and it is very similar to my definition of happiness! “What ever you believe makes you happy is happiness. No one elses but your own. What ever you interpret to be enjoying is your own, you claim that to be your happiness.” I am very agree with this and it is so true to me.
I don’t know if you ever touch or criticize the thought about how Banach has define happiness for the readers and therefore it contradicts, because by following his definition of happiness, we would not have freedom.
However, I like the way that you come up with your own definition of happiness, which that I believe everybody should do other than following what Banach suggested in his lecture.
Although your ideas are like all over the place, I enjoy reading your idea about his lecture! It really shows the process of how you think and develop the ideas.
Bao Lin
If I happened to read your post earlier, I should have told you that Manley actually did posted the link of the lecture in his blog that you can read online.
http://mrmanleysclass.blogspot.com/2009/09/link-to-banach-lecture-online.html
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sartrelecture.htm
Anyway, I think you still got the idea and you did touch the topic that he asked us to write about- human happiness. I have to agree with your own definition of happiness. I like the way you put it and it is very similar to my definition of happiness! “What ever you believe makes you happy is happiness. No one elses but your own. What ever you interpret to be enjoying is your own, you claim that to be your happiness.” I am very agree with this and it is so true to me.
I don’t know if you ever touch or criticize the thought about how Banach has define happiness for the readers and therefore it contradicts, because by following his definition of happiness, we would not have freedom.
However, I like the way that you come up with your own definition of happiness, which that I believe everybody should do other than following what Banach suggested in his lecture.
Although your ideas are like all over the place, I enjoy reading your idea about his lecture! It really shows the process of how you think and develop the ideas.
Bao Lin
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May,
I do agree with you that Banach’s lecture did cause a lot of criticism and many people are disagreeing with his idea including myself. I love how you shoelace the quotes into your writing and interpret it in your own words. Such as the terms that you used “not 100% sure what this is supposed to mean” and “I am not really sure what he means”. Nice Try! This sort of connects to Banach’s idea how everyone is unable to know how each other feel because we all are in our own island of subjectivity that we all perceive differently. I am glad that you did it this way throughout your whole post, because nobody really exactly knows what he really means. We just know based on our own understandings.
I think Banach did talk about the point of life such as getting happiness within, and how to be free. But he did not really enhance these ideas in that aspect. However, I like how you push yourself to think and lead further from his ideas. Additionally, I like how you make such great connections with Banach’s examples along with your own.
“Does this mean that we have to desire something in order to be happy and have absolute freedom?”
When I was reading Banach’s lecture, this is actually one of the question that I have asked in the margin, too. I would like to answer this question to share my opinion with you in this comment. I think the answer is yes, we have to desire something in order to be happy, but not necessary will have absolute freedom. I don’t know why getting freedom has to do with desire. But anyway, I guess because we desire for freedom, therefore we have to desire for certain things in order to move on and to get them. Relating back to desire something to be happy, I think this is true. I guess you can see that when you smile because every time when you get what you want, you immediately will smile. Or to think this way, you desire for happy, thus you are happy because that’s what you want. I don’t think people can be happy without desire; people must be looking for something in their life.
I love your post; it always deepens my ideas while reading your post. Thanks.
Bao Lin
I do agree with you that Banach’s lecture did cause a lot of criticism and many people are disagreeing with his idea including myself. I love how you shoelace the quotes into your writing and interpret it in your own words. Such as the terms that you used “not 100% sure what this is supposed to mean” and “I am not really sure what he means”. Nice Try! This sort of connects to Banach’s idea how everyone is unable to know how each other feel because we all are in our own island of subjectivity that we all perceive differently. I am glad that you did it this way throughout your whole post, because nobody really exactly knows what he really means. We just know based on our own understandings.
I think Banach did talk about the point of life such as getting happiness within, and how to be free. But he did not really enhance these ideas in that aspect. However, I like how you push yourself to think and lead further from his ideas. Additionally, I like how you make such great connections with Banach’s examples along with your own.
“Does this mean that we have to desire something in order to be happy and have absolute freedom?”
When I was reading Banach’s lecture, this is actually one of the question that I have asked in the margin, too. I would like to answer this question to share my opinion with you in this comment. I think the answer is yes, we have to desire something in order to be happy, but not necessary will have absolute freedom. I don’t know why getting freedom has to do with desire. But anyway, I guess because we desire for freedom, therefore we have to desire for certain things in order to move on and to get them. Relating back to desire something to be happy, I think this is true. I guess you can see that when you smile because every time when you get what you want, you immediately will smile. Or to think this way, you desire for happy, thus you are happy because that’s what you want. I don’t think people can be happy without desire; people must be looking for something in their life.
I love your post; it always deepens my ideas while reading your post. Thanks.
Bao Lin
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