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The Art of Living

Living According To Nature

Massimo Pigliucci goes back to Nature to seek happiness.

We should all live according to Nature. No, I don’t mean that we should run naked into the forest and hug trees (though there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that). I mean that if we want to be happy, we should conduct our lives in agreement with what Nature itself suggests, and in particular, our own nature.

Consider a simple example, originally formulated by British philosopher Philippa Foot. Let’s say you invite me over for dinner and I show up with a bottle of wine.

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