Pensar estraga o gozo ou amplia-o? (ou, o Paradoxo do Hedonismo)

"Kant also appeals to a teleological argument to try to show that happiness is not the highest good in human life and the purpose to which we should all strive. The purpose of reason cannot be to pursue our happiness, he argues, since reason is so poorly designed for that task. Instinct would be a much better guide to happiness. Since the function of reason cannot be to pursue happiness, it must have some other role, and that is, he claims, to become a good will. Virtue, not happiness, is the ultimate purpose of human life (G IV 395–7). This argument obviously depends on a number of highly controversial claims. In the first place, Kant has to establish that using reason is not a good method of becoming happy. There are perhaps a number of considerations that Kant might have had in mind here. First, he might appeal to the ‘paradox of hedonism’."

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Hills, Alison, "Happiness in the Groundwork", in Timmermann, Jens (org.) (2009), Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. A Critical Guide, Cambridge, CUP, p. 31