Philosophy Meet-Up @ ABC
📍 Location: ABC, Arnhem
🕢 Time: 19:30 – come grab a drink/snack and get comfortable. When time feels ripe the conversation will start.

This session's topic:
Happiness and Joy. They are some of the kinder things in life. But what is happiness? How does it differ from joy or pleasure? Can we consciously be more happy?

For this discussion you don't need to bring any knowledge besides what your personal life experience taught you.
For additional interesting angles, here are selected sources:

Suggested angles (optional reading):

Wikipedia on "is Happiness the goal of life?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_happiness?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Does Money make you happy?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness?time=2024

A 7 min. Podcast on the Practice of Happiness with Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard
https://onbeing.org/programs/happiness-is-practice-not-pleasure-matthieu-ricard/

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