Friday, July 27, 2012

Happiness Is Subjective And It Drives Purposeful Action.

Since human beings act purposefully the power to make the divine economy manifest rests with each individual. It rests; it resides, and becomes evident in these individual actions. Mises writes:

As long as a man lives, he cannot help obeying the cardinal impulse, the elan vital. It is man's innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness. [2]

            The power to make the divine economy manifest comes from the invisible world of thought and reason and enters the visible world through purposeful action. Since no action occurs in a vacuum each action becomes a part of the educative matrix of all actions, all of which follow the same subjective processes.


[2] Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, Fourth Revised Edition (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1996), p. 882.

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