Are the keys to living a good life simple or complex?

Answer 1

i have been waiting a long time for this question...

simplicity is the way to go..

take a look at the amish..
making their own food.... working their own land... buying their baby stuff at yard sales.. making their own clothes... entertaining the simple folks who think they are pure.....wink wink....

yeah, they have it all... and it's simple.... i guess... but they live in a complex... so whatever....
i need to stay out of the philosophy section.... LOL...

Answer 2

I am the key to living a complex life simply. But, I tend to mix up the keys at time which seems to make the simplicity I found more comples, but, also more interesting. I hope I never find the right key at the right time, but always see the wrong key as the right key when it is used.

Answer 3

The keys are rather simple, it is people who make things complex.

Answer 4

It starts out simple, gets complex and then becomes simple again. The trick is to see the obvious, which is quite hard to learn.

Answer 5

Simple for me.

Money is important only to the point that your basal needs (food and shelter) are satisfied. Beyond that, it's a never ending pursuit.

I love to commune with the outdoors and enjoy the natural beauty there. Working the soil with my hands is almost a spiritual activity.

The best things in life aren't things.

Answer 6

That would all depend on what you consider a good life.

If a good life is a nice book by the fireside, then yes.

If a good life is a yacht and houses all over the world, I wouldn't think that would be so simple.

Your question can be answered with another :)

Answer 7

the keys are simple, not loosing them is complex.

Answer 8

Complex.

'C. Universal Principle of Right.
“Every action is right which in itself, or in the maxim on which it proceeds, is such that it can coexist along with the freedom of the will of each and all in action, according to a universal law.” If, then, my action or my condition generally can coexist with the freedom of every other, according to a universal law, any one does me a wrong who hinders me in the performance of this action, or in the maintenance of this condition. For such a hindrance or obstruction cannot coexist with freedom according to universal laws. It follows also that it cannot be demanded as a matter of right, that this universal principle of all maxims shall itself be adopted as my maxim, that is, that I shall make it the maxim of my actions. For any one may be free, although his freedom is entirely indifferent to me, or even if I wished in my heart to infringe it, so long as I do not actually violate that freedom by my external action. Ethics, however, as distinguished from jurisprudence, imposes upon me the obligation to make the fulfilment of right a maxim of my conduct. The universal law of right may then be expressed thus: “Act externally in such a manner that the free exercise of thy will may be able to coexist with the freedom of all others, according to a universal law.” This is undoubtedly a law which imposes obligation upon me; but it does not at all imply and still less command that I ought, merely on account of this obligation, to limit my freedom to these very conditions. Reason in this connection says only that it is restricted thus far by its idea, and may be likewise thus limited in fact by others; and it lays this down as a postulate which is not capable of further proof. As the object in view is not to teach virtue, but to explain what right is, thus far the law of right, as thus laid down, may not and should not be represented as a motive-principle of action.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/morals/ch04.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/index.htm


There are keys for which there is no lock and no place for it. The Will is positive and the Judgment is negative.

Answer 9

Simplicity.

Answer 10

Very, very simple. We like to complicate things. I suspect it makes us feel intelligent.