I disagree with this because people make impacts on everyone around them, as Banach said himself, we see the world through our experience, and people make up that experience, so naturally you'll have to remember a person in your life, that person affected you in some way. When that person dies they live on in your memory. Everything they accomplished will also live on through us. Even if someone dies they will live through the people they've affected who are currently alive, as long as that persons actions are seen or recorded, or have impacted someone else's life they will live on.
Having proved that our accomplishments do count for something, I've revised Banachs definition of human happiness to encompass the legacies we pass on. Human happiness is comprised of the joy of trying to accomplish something and the joy when something has been accomplished, the immediate joy being that you've been able to succeed at something and the long term joy that your success will be passed on to future generations. Our lives aren't meaningless as long as we can pass something on and make the future generations easier and better.
I agree that no ones lives are meaningless because they die. People are always leaving behind something of themselves so that others can learn from them. I also love your definition of happiness. I feel like this is a more real definition and more relatable then Banachs.
ReplyDeleteMarco, good post!
ReplyDeleteI really admire the comments you have to say! I like the fact that you feel that Banach wants us to the enjoy the "effort" of life. I say this because it true, we all will die someday and everything we did in our life WOULD be erased. That's why we enjoy what we do. I like the fact that you brought this point up because it made really think about the stuff I was doing in my life. It made me think "If I am going to pass away, what is the point of doing what I am doing in my everyday life?". Other than that, I felt that you did a good job on this response. You had a lot of thoughts and opinions in this response. You are a very good writer Marco. You have a gift of explaining something so little and making it into a big topic and also making it something that the reader can think deeper about. I like the way you write, you write to make a topic better not just to write it.
It was a great response and I loved the response that you gave towards Banach's response. Great work Keep it up !