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http://repository.osakafu-u.ac.jp/dspace/ Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.3, No.2 (April 2013):127-144 Better to Be a Renunciant Buddhism, Happiness, and the Good Life Abstract This essay seeks to understand the nature of happiness and the good life within the context of Buddhist philosophy. Buddhism is a pessimistic philosophy, but only in the sense that it insists that happiness, as