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Alain De Botton Analysis
From the YouTube clip, the narrator, Alain de Botton, described Nietzsche’s “good life” as a person “...striving to correct the belief that fulfilment must come easily or not as all…the wise must devote themselves to avoiding pain rather than seeking pleasure. Fulfilment was to be reached not by avoiding pain, but by recognizing its role, as a natural, inevitable step or the way to reaching anything good.” De Botton articulated that Nietzsche believed pleasure was result of some type of physical or mental pain. If an individual was happy with one’s life, it was the conclusion of failing one or multiple times. For a person to be satisfied, failure before is solely the step the ingredient prior.
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