Joy
Joy is a concept that seems pretty much to enter philosophy with Nietzsche, or at least as we know it today it does because who really knows what Aristotle meant by eudemonia or Spinoza by beatitudo even? What exactly do we have in mind when we speak these words?
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Nietzsche also seems to have been someone whom for some reason happiness seems to have kept eluding his whole life. And so he philosophized and then like so maybe his philosophizing can be viewed as a result of that, that the elusion of happiness makes it at its core or as some philosophers like to say, constitutes its essence?
Anyhow now we have a bunch of very intimate writings all thanks to him prior to which modern philosophy was really just about math and politics and happiness really of no concern to anyone but maybe even always well secured by all or at least most of those who wrote and published their works, the so called public intellectuals. Nietzsche however has the term right in the very title of maybe even his most important work of all, The Gay Science.
