What is happiness? While a first look this question may seem simple enough to answer, but after one contemplates the answer, it can become more challenging and difficult to answer. Many people have their own views on happiness and how one can achieve it. For instance, one may think they are happy according to one’s opinion on what happiness is, but according to another’s definition on what happiness is, they are in fact not happy. Epictetus and Aristotle for instance have different views on what happiness is and how one can become happy. Epictetus has the truer view on what happiness is because he gives everyone a chance to be happy as opposed to Aristotle, who believes that most people will not reach a true state of happiness. According
