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What about the moral dimension of happiness?
快乐的道德维度呢？
There are so many other things happening, so many important things to do in the world.
还有很多事情在发生世上有很多重要的事情要做
Why should we have happiness as our highest end, as our chief concern, as that which determines the motion of our life?
为什么把快乐作为最终目标作为主要担心为什么由它来决定生命活动？
In other words, what's good about wellbeing?
换言之，幸福有什么好处？
What's good about positive emotions?
积极情绪有什么好处？
And there is a lot of research to answer this question.
大量研究都尝试回答这个问题
But before the research, it feels good to feel good.
暂不说研究感觉好就是感觉好
Think about it. Internalize it.
想到快乐，注入内心
You know This is Aristotle's Law of Identity:
这是亚里斯多德的"同一律"
A is A it feels good to feel good.
一即一，感觉好就是感觉好
And that, in and of itself is justification:
这本身就是辩解理由
why not feel good, if we can feel good?
如果能感觉好，为什么不感觉好呢?
So the burden to prove why happiness is not important may be on the people
证明快乐为什么是不重要的重担可能落在
who would argue otherwise we will talk about that argument later.
执否定观点的人身上我们会在以后谈到这个论点
But the first key issue is that it's good in and of itself almost needs no justification.
但首先的关键问题是快乐本身是好的几乎无需辩解
However, beyond just feeling good, happiness also contributes to our life, to our relationships.
然而除了感觉好快乐还对我们的人生有帮助对人际关系有帮助
It contributes to other people.
对他人有帮助
This is research done by Barbara Fredrickson, one of the faculty members who teaches at U PENN.
Barbara Fredrickson做了这项研究在宾州大学任教的学会成员
You saw a picture of her up there.
你们曾在上面见过她的照片
What Barbara Fredrickson says is that positive emotions have an evolutionary reason,
Barbara Fredrickson的观点是积极情绪有一个进化理由
that they have a purpose beyond just making us feel good.
它们的目的不仅仅是让人感觉好

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我们来到这个世上，到底追求什么才是最重要的？

他坚定地认为：幸福感是衡量人生的唯一标准，是所有目标的最终目标。塔尔博士在哈佛学生中享有很高的声誉，受到学生们的爱戴与敬仰，被誉为"最受欢迎讲师"和"人生导师"。