Spinoza sees it well.
Happiness is a choice, a talent, something you can develop, something that needs special attention and energy and effort. And happiness is not the result of good virtues, what you deserve when you're friendly, when you are helping others, making beautiful music, or performing your job well.
Happiness has its own power, its own greatness and deserves its own attention.
For example, people who are having gorgeous virtues can still be unhappy.
For example, people who do not seem to have any virtues can be just happy.
Spinoza recognizes happiness as being a special
virtue.
And creating a virtue, or strengthening a weak
virtue or developing a virtue are demanding human effort, energy, focus and hard work.Therefore, you can say that a happy person is not just happy, but that he has worked hard for it.
Spinoza removes happiness out of the black books of which is happenings to you and gives it the place it deserves, namely that happiness is makeable.
Spinoza is blessed.
My blessings to you all
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