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Philosophy. Happiness:

First get rid of the misfortune:

How to maximize happiness?
  - The first factor is the minimization of suffering.
  Easier and more productive - first get rid of "happiness" with a minus sign.
  And only after that go to the positive creation of joy in life.

And, getting rid of suffering is quite real.
  The first factor of this is the control of one's instincts.
  - People instinctively pursue pleasures, but "the load" gets suffering and disappointment.

Therefore, as a rule, a large amount of pleasure minus suffering gives control over instincts, "passions."
  - Not a complete refusal of pleasures to avoid the associated troubles, but a constant foresight and a balance of possible troubles.

At the same time with the best balance - the structure of pleasures is completely different from spontaneous, spontaneous.
  Pleasures not accompanied by suffering, are cognitive, altruistic and creative joys.

"Base level of happiness" - criticism :

"Studies show that there is a" Basic level of happiness ", to which a person returns regardless of income level & nbsp; and events such as winning a lottery or the death of a close relative."
  En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolysis_ (bioethics)

- It's a lie. - "Basic level of happiness" - is only valid for the ordinary state.
  Chronic depression clearly contrasts with it.
  Self-awareness is more effective than drugs.
  - Drugs are also just a pendulum near the "Basic level."
  Self-consciousness is also able to move the "Basic level" into nirvana.

The main direction of Abolitionism:

The main direction of Abolitionism (hedonic transhumanism) should be genetic engineering
  - not directly increasing happiness, which is unreliable,
  A - Increasing Self-Consciousness.
  The size of the brain and mp is only a means to this.

The main mistake of Transhumanism:

- Underestimation of social factors.
  1. No drugs will help in a concentration camp.
  2. Perfection of man, not including subhuman, under totalitarian democracy only perpetuates inequality between people.

Criticism of Schopenhauer:

According to Schopenhauer, a fool pursues pleasures and comes to disappointment, and the sage, on the contrary, tries to avoid troubles through self-restraint & nbsp; - a wise living person realizes the inevitability of disasters, and therefore curbs his passions and puts limits to his desires. (History of Philosophy: Encyclopedia 2002)
  However, optimal is not curbing = limiting your passions - for avoiding the sufferings associated with them, but - managing passions.

The life of man, according to Schopenhauer, & nbsp; is unceasing suffering, and all efforts to free oneself from suffering lead only to the fact that one suffering is replaced by another,
  "I do not agree either." - From suffering you can get rid of - completely, without replacing some of the suffering with others.
  It is enough only to calculate the consequences of the development of different feelings.

The satisfaction of basic life needs, according to Schopenhauer, - turns out to be only satiety and boredom.
  - Also disagree. - feelings of satiety and boredom can also be eliminated by 100%.
  For example, satisfying the need for meaningfulness of life - is not accompanied by even a shadow of satiety and boredom.

& nbsp;

"The philosophy of suicide":

Paradoxically, philosophers are often feeble. Philosophy is a disease, often.
  Albert Camus, for example, analyzing the causes of suicide, reduces, stretches them to philosophy. -
  "Voluntary death assumes the recognition of the insignificance of the habit of life, the realization of the absence of a reason for life, the understanding of the meaninglessness of everyday vanity."
  "Everyone who ever thought about suicide people immediately recognize the existence of a direct connection between this feeling and the craving for non-being." (Albert Camus. & Nbsp; The Myth of Sisyphus, Essay on Absurdity)
  - Scientific here and does not smell. Why, in general, is an artificial philosophizing considered a science?

In fact, the causes of suicides are trite psychic, - intolerable suffering.
  The percentage of "philosophical" suicides is vanishingly small.
  Camus himself gives an example of a "housekeeper who has changed a lot, having lost his daughter five years ago."

Philosophers are often mentally ill. - a propensity to a priori reasoning, isolated from the analysis of specific phenomena and from experiment.
  Reasoning with them is often triggered by emotions caused by the yellow press. -
  "Newspapers report" intimate sorrows "or" incurable disease ""