Too Intelligent to Be Happy?
Syllabus topic 5: Too Intelligent to Be Happy?
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What makes the original proposition difficult to challenge?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: Counterexamples are reinterpreted to protect it
Happy intelligent people are dismissed while unhappiness counts as support.
What is the debate actually examining?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: The reasoning behind a general claim
They question definitions and what would count against the proposition.
What changes in the main defender's position?
Your answer: Unanswered
Correct answer: He stops treating his feelings as proof of superiority
His experience remains, but its hierarchical interpretation loosens.
What makes the original proposition difficult to challenge?
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Correct answer: Counterexamples are reinterpreted to protect it
Happy intelligent people are dismissed while unhappiness counts as support.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: The reasoning behind a general claim
They question definitions and what would count against the proposition.
Not quite. Keep learning.
Correct answer: He stops treating his feelings as proof of superiority
His experience remains, but its hierarchical interpretation loosens.
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