Voltaire

Given the choice, would you rather have happiness or knowledge? Seems like an easy question to answer. But, it is not so obvious. I first ran into this question decades ago when I was reading a collection of Voltaire. “The Good Brahmin” tells the story of a learned intellectual in India who is absolutely miserable; nothing in all his learning has brought him joy and he is miserable at the thought of not knowing the secret of happiness. The story then tells of a poor old woman who was … [Read more...] about Knightian Unhappiness