Emily Esfahani Smith expresses that the pursuit of happiness thwarts happiness itself. In the article it is proven that living a life of happiness is much different than living with a pursuit of meaning. Often, people who live according to happiness are takers and those live by meaning are givers. In the are article There’s More to Life Than Being Happy Emily Esfahani Smith uses ethos, pathos, and logos to discuss that beyond happiness meaning comes from more complex things.
Ethos Is used by the author to explain the ultimate reality that most humans today don’t feel satisfied because they are searching for a life purpose. “According to Gallup , the happiness levels of Americans are at a four-year high -- as is, it seems, the number of best-selling books with the word "happiness" in their titles.” (Smith, 2013) Americans today will even read upon books and novels that give any idea to what real happiness is but they are looking beyond the actual point of happiness. “On the other hand, according to the Center for Disease Control (CFDC), …show more content…
the pursuit of meaning. The idea of happiness vs. meaning plays a role on people because often people just feel temporary happiness but someone with meaning will have a feeling of life purpose. “But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.” (Smith, 2013) Smith talks about a Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist, Viktor Frankl who was transported to a Nazi concentration camp. “it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." (Smith, 2013) While in the concentration Frankl had observed those who had lived and died through meaning. Frankl also concluded that those in the concentration camps and people in general who found meaning in suffering even in complete suffering were more
Ethos Is used by the author to explain the ultimate reality that most humans today don’t feel satisfied because they are searching for a life purpose. “According to Gallup , the happiness levels of Americans are at a four-year high -- as is, it seems, the number of best-selling books with the word "happiness" in their titles.” (Smith, 2013) Americans today will even read upon books and novels that give any idea to what real happiness is but they are looking beyond the actual point of happiness. “On the other hand, according to the Center for Disease Control (CFDC), …show more content…
the pursuit of meaning. The idea of happiness vs. meaning plays a role on people because often people just feel temporary happiness but someone with meaning will have a feeling of life purpose. “But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.” (Smith, 2013) Smith talks about a Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist, Viktor Frankl who was transported to a Nazi concentration camp. “it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." (Smith, 2013) While in the concentration Frankl had observed those who had lived and died through meaning. Frankl also concluded that those in the concentration camps and people in general who found meaning in suffering even in complete suffering were more