Simplicity (2024)

Simplicity (1) Happiness and the Good Life

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2012

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9780199933068

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9780199845217

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Mike W. Martin

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144–154

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    May 2012

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Martin, Mike W., 'Simplicity', Happiness and the Good Life (New York, 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199845217.003.0011, accessed 13 Sept. 2024.

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Simplicity is a recurring theme in discussions of happiness, from Socrates and the Stoics to Thoreau to contemporary self-help books, but it contains complexities of its own. If simplicity is merely reducing complexity by cutting back on the number of our concerns, then it might be prudent or foolish. If instead it is the virtue of identifying and living by what is most important, removing undesirable distractions in order to stay focused on essentials, then it is akin to wisdom. Happiness is one important value, and hence enters into defining simplicity. The question then arises how happiness relates to familiar “simplicity themes” such as greater mindfulness, frugality, and conservation. Simplicity is best subsumed under the wider rubric of coping with complexity in good lives.

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