On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> I was going to reply to Michael P., but WD already said what I was
> going
> to say. There is a huge difference between "self flourishing" or
> "self
> development" and being happy. --Further: the American devotion to
> "being happy" is more or less irrelevant to meaningful self
> development.
Jefferson meant self-development when he wrote that phrase about the pursuit of happiness, didn't he? Isn't that a phrase with a history?
Doug