A Question Post 2

I do not mean this discussion to be to philosophical in scope, I don’t claim to hold the monopoly on truth. Philosophy, in its purest form, is the study of the study knowledge itself. This rather opaque pursuit seems to be archaic in our society because the connection to one’s daily life has been severed. Why does one scrutinize the world of ideas and its relation to the physical world? I would contend that pen ultimate goal is to lead a better life, which I also define as happier. Though some might argue that happiness is too subjective a concept to place as a goal I would counter with the fact that, however it is defined, one would prefer to be more happy than less. The first of you will say, “but fine sir, aren’t there those out there who love the mildewed walls of sweet melancholy?” Yet I think it is fair to say that they are seeking a qualitative better existence through melancholy than would be possible to them if they didn’t have the protective shroud of sorrow. Then you may return “but isn’t happiness different than feeling less pain”? Off we would go into the semantics of it, so I will leave it as this, I believe that Man would prefer to feel better than worse, with one of the end of the spectrum being happiness while the other is sorrow. If you seek to dispute this, I have left ample holes for you to drive your tank of logic through, if it makes you happy to do so.