Happiness Is a Worthy Pursuit

Who Are We? The People Who Should Be Happy (DN 4.20)

Jefferson’s famous phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” had a lovely aspirational quality to it—one that could not quite be matched by the far more common Enlightenment-era trio of “Life, liberty, and property.” (It would have been better for all of us if he had added property back in and made it a quartet, but that is a separate subject…