The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates, but no one seems quite sure which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan Swift1 seemed t...The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates, but no one seems quite sure which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan Swift1 seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as 'the possession of being well-deceived,' the felicity of being 'a fool among knaves'. For Swift saw society as Vanity Fair2, the land of false goals.展开更多
文摘The right to pursue happiness is issued to Americans with their birth certificates, but no one seems quite sure which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offered no game. Jonathan Swift1 seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as 'the possession of being well-deceived,' the felicity of being 'a fool among knaves'. For Swift saw society as Vanity Fair2, the land of false goals.
