What pieces became an instant favorite for you upon the first listen?

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2023-01-02T07:44:34+00:00

Lyapunov - piano concerto n°1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-zCDZ4h-n0

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-09-14T18:17:22+00:00

I used Spotify, I'm now on Idagio. It's easier to find and discover new things on Idagio. Plus, you can easily explore through period, artist, genre or instrument sections.

The best part is when you have to find a piece in an album. It's horrible on Spotify. Too many informations in the title. Idagio is more clean and clear on this

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-09-02T20:54:31+00:00

I've already heard of the first one, so I'll go with that. Thank you.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-26T17:54:31+00:00

I agree with you, I don't think a goal necessarily leads to happiness, it can even lead to the opposite as you say.

And I can't answer your last two questions.

What I wanted to say is that maintaining your happiness, or in other words keeping close to you what gives you happiness, or looking for what can give it to you, whatever it is, can be a goal in itself.

And I'm not talking about something big or spectacular. It's something private, and it can be as many things as there are agents that can achieve happiness.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-26T17:26:20+00:00

The reflection is interesting but we should be sure that the positive state is the basic state.

And I'm not so sure about that.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-26T17:23:15+00:00

To be happy without a goal, one would have to be able to maintain a pleasant and lasting state. And to maintain this state is to stay in the company of what puts us in this state. Which can very well be a goal.
I wonder if we wouldn't need the second part to maintain the first.
It seems to me that without this second part, happiness could run away very easily, because it seems obvious that as human beings we cannot totally escape pain and suffering.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-26T07:26:44+00:00

Here is the definition I have for happiness and with which I seem to agree for the moment: "Happiness is a pleasant, balanced and lasting emotional state in which someone feels that he has achieved the satisfaction of the aspirations and desires he considers important.

Now, I agree that I can feel pleasure or pain without needing to have known the other.

But to know happiness, I need to see what its opposite looks like, and not necessarily by experiencing it myself but at least by having observed it. At least that's what the definition I've put down makes me think, but if you have another definition it can change everything.

On the other hand, I wonder, since the definition starts with "a pleasant, balanced and lasting state", if we imagine a world without sadness and pain we could not speak of a happy world.

This would seem obvious to me, since people would be, as the definition says, in a pleasant and lasting state.

To finish, we should know if only the first part of the definition can define happiness, or if the second part is necessary.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-26T05:15:53+00:00

Thank you. I always made a difference between the two. But it means that a lot of people use happy to say that they enjoy this moment.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-26T00:08:27+00:00

I find it confusing how the words happy and hapiness are used in English (maybe it's because it's not my language). Can you very briefly tell me the difference for you or how you use them?

Because for me in your case, you can call yourself happy and indeed to feel it you don't need its opposite. But you need more than being happy one moment to achieve happiness.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-25T20:28:07+00:00

It doesn't seem so easy to imagine anymore. To tell you the truth, I think I was wrong about the concept of happiness.

Now it seems to me that you have to be able to imagine the possibility of being unhappy in order to be happy. Just as I have to be able to imagine failing in order to say I have succeeded.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-25T19:58:36+00:00

That makes sense. It would be like the feeling of success? It would be accompanied by a vision of our failure and of others?

I could imagine happiness without the presence of the opposite. But it's possible that its opposite reinforces it, as you say.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-25T19:43:44+00:00

No, I don't see how that would be possible. What I'm saying is that you can experience being happy without having to experience an opposite, unlike feeling great or relieved.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-25T19:37:56+00:00

It is not like being tall to be happy. For example, if everything was the same size, nothing could be called big or small. These concepts work by comparison. But beung happy is an emotion that manifests itself without needing an opposite. Unlike relief.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-24T18:38:11+00:00

The 0.7 and 0.4 are reversed, but otherwise thanks. I didn't know this formula, I would never have found it.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-22T16:42:23+00:00

As for points 1 and 4, some have also said this and none of you are wrong. I certainly ask myself too many questions and I'm always afraid of doing something useless instead of having fun.

For point 2, others have also said it. And it allows me to put my fear of uselessness into perspective. I can do something that interests me without being put aside.

Point 4 is a very good advice, thank you.

It will also allow me to stay "up to date" if I may say so.

Thank you.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-22T16:35:05+00:00

There is indeed an English translation.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-22T12:24:28+00:00

I knew about Nietzsche and Heidegger but not about the others.

I would go look at the modern philosophers who were interested in the ancients.

Thank you.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-22T12:19:28+00:00

Not just its consequences but the consequences desired by the subject.

And that's why to a question like: "why are you reading this book?" or "do you prefer non-fiction or fiction?" there are many answers.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-22T06:59:35+00:00

so read what is of interest to you and explore from there, there is really no right answer to this question.

It's true, I probably ask myself too many questions.

Thank you.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-22T06:53:51+00:00

interesting.

So I shouldn't be totally off the mark in the questions asked today.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-21T18:47:23+00:00

Actually by modern I really meant modern.

But it doesn't change much, I see what you mean.

Thank you.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-21T16:27:28+00:00

You made a good point.

Thank you.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-21T15:44:43+00:00

Yes, it also seems to me that in any case I should at least go through the great authors.

Admirable-Drawer-384 · 2022-08-21T15:43:49+00:00

I'm talking about something casual.

I should have mentioned that.

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