Happiness

The Fundamentalists

Elliott Morgan and Peter Rollins

Society & Culture:philosophy, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Is lasting happiness possible? Perhaps. But at what cost? This week the boys jump into the distinction that is made in psychoanalysis between happiness and desire. Happiness being a position that lacks the courage to grasp desire. Along the way Peter's interest in Hegel and Elliott's belief in aliens briefly meet in the idea of Hegaliens.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody and welcome to the fundamentalist podcast.
0:07.6	My name is L.A. Morgan and I'm here with Dr. Peter Rollins.
0:10.3	Dr. Peter Rollins, how are you doing today?
0:11.6	I'm doing it. I like the fact that you always call me Dr. Peter Rollins.
0:14.3	You're the only person he does that.
0:16.1	It's a fun. It's a nice for people who've never heard the podcast.
0:19.2	It's like, oh, who is this a doctor?
0:21.0	And it makes you sound like an expert, which you are.
0:23.8	So it's not a medical doctor.
0:27.5	Yeah.
0:27.8	In Europe, they just don't use the title very much.
0:30.3	Really?
0:30.6	They just don't really use it very much.
0:31.7	I think probably in America too.
0:33.4	I don't know.
0:34.1	I don't think so. I mean, I think it's kind of, yeah, isn't that one of those things? It's like you do it so then you can, when people do notice, you can be like, oh, yeah.
0:40.8	Oh, yeah, so false humility.
0:42.3	Ah, yeah, that's good.
0:43.2	I don't use it.
0:44.5	I actually prefer just to, I can see your bonsai tree sticking out.
0:48.3	Oh, yeah, I just bought it. It came from Florida, your neck of the woods. Were we living together when you were taking care of a bonsai tree?
0:54.9	Yeah, it didn't last long.
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