Questions about happiness only started to rise during the Renaissance. Enlightened thinkers wondered if it was possible to be happy on earth. Before the seventeenth century people only believed in the viewpoint of the Church that it is impossible to experience happiness since Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise. Prosperity brought the freedom to ask questions. People were no longer fully focused on surviving, and started to experience leisure time. However, scientific research on happiness would not start until after the Second World War, only really coming to life in the 1970’s.
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- Written by Without Dash
- October 24th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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That’s interesting and weird to think people never thought about being happy before the times you stated.
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