his happiness since all worked perfectly. He would not become happy if he wins the next championship. Therefore, he began to seek answers of how to find happiness. He wanted a life where he could be both successful and happy. He read topics from Aristotle to Confucius. In the end, he did not know exactly what happiness was so he tried to figure it out. He did not know about was it an emotion, pleasure, absence of pain or bliss he asked himself. 2. Give an outline of what makes people happy and
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Does Money Equal Happiness? Many people think money is the key to happiness. Happiness is the state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy, which means happiness is an emotion. An emotion is what you feel. Emotions can be short lived or long term. Some emotions, like fear, can come and go. Long lasting fear usually is undesirable. Happiness, on the other hand, is an emotion that most people would like to experience over the long term. People often seek
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In his book Nichomacean Ethics, Aristotle states that to live a good and happy life a human being must have a proper function, “an activity of the soul in conformity with a rational principle” (p 17 line 3) that is ‘aim[ed] at some good” (p3 line 2). However, some achieve that proper function more effectively than others through their decisions. Aristotle mentions that “some vices exceed and others fall short of what is required in emotion and in action, whereas virtue finds and chooses the median”
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Text 1 Summary: The text is about the man Tal Ben-Shahar who talks about happiness. How that he for five years had trained so hard to play in the Israeli Nationals squash championship, and won. Although it gave him immediately satisfaction and he were happy, then after a while, the happiness slowly fainted away. He questioned why only hours after his big win, why he is not happy anymore. He tries to convince himself that the feeling he has is only, the temporary low following an overwhelming high
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According to Aristotle happiness for a man is self-sufficient, complete without qualification, peculiar to humans, excellent and best and most complete. The ethical issues that are present in this article is the comparison between the I 7 and the X 6-8 . I 7 criteria implies that there is only one activity which is happiness and one happy life whereas X 8-6 there are two happy lives and therefore two activities which meet the criteria of happiness. The ethical alternatives include where Aristotle retains
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Yesun-Erdene.B Can Money Buy Happiness? We live in a society of shopaholics. This process of shopping and purchasing things that we want is the major part of any economy and a main factor that is developing society; therefore, many people have become more materialistic and give a lot importance to money and chasing it. They think that money can’t buy happiness, however; it can. Moreover, money plays an important role in our lives because it helps us to value things in our lives and it
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Happiness has always been a topic to study by the scientists, psychology and philosophers; however, there is not an agreement about what happiness is. Some branches of the psychology prefer to study the positive feelings that could make the human being feel happy, due to how wide could be the concept of happiness. Humans being has always wanted to discover the key to happiness, furthermore, which is the definitions that science gives to happiness? Otherwise, is happiness a feeling that could be
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Life is all about being happy. Happiness is the highest and final good at which all our actions are aimed. As mill claimed, to achieve this happiness we should balance between tranquillity and excitement, affection from others and for others, and a well-cultivated mind. All of us do different things in our lives but for the same ending result, self-satisfaction and happiness. We are all aiming for a good happy life in which pleasures outweigh the pain. But first we have to change what is inside us
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January 14, 2013 How to Live a Happy Life I once read from the very popular Reader’s Digest that being happy can add seven up to ten more years in your life. From that time on, I have developed my own guide to a happy life. Although we are never free from troubles, we can always maximize our happiness. Well, there are so many articles on the internet, magazines and books presenting thousands of ways to be happy and reading all those can sometimes be tiring. To spare you from that, I have narrowed
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Dying With the Most Toys Does Not Mean You’ve Won In Book 1 of On the Free Choice of the Will, Augustine examines the relationship between doing good and being happy. Happiness is when someone takes delight in their own will, as opposed to depending on temporal things for your happiness, something with which modern psychology agrees. Evil people will to be happy as well, but they refuse to will to live rightly. This leads to evil people depending on temporal things for their happiness, which leads
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