heidi chronicles: Art and Happiness

Monday, February 4, 2019

Art and Happiness

There is no non-creative path to happiness.

Love is the path to creativity.

We must live and create, "in the very midst of the desert." (Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 1955, p. v)

1. Loyalty.
2. Forbearance: self-control towards others.
3. Hardihood.
4. Generosity: not just a simple matter of giving away what one has, but "Largitas in a man caused him to set no store on greed or gifts, and to have nothing but contempt for bribes."
5. Benevolence. The Davidic ethic: It is the strongest quality of the preudomme - benevolence of the strong toward the weak.
6. Honor: honor is achieved by living up to the ideal of the preudomme and pursuing the qualities and behavior listed above.

7. Championship: everywhere and always be the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.