Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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> > 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?
The original phrase was "life, liberty and property"; I think that was also in the first draft of the Declaration, so the final form is a sort of euphemism.
Carrol