Happiness And Eudaimonia Analysis

In the article, “Happiness and Eudaimonia”, the text tackles one of the most fundamental questions that virtually everyone in this universe has grappled with, what defines a happy life, versus a good life? (Happiness and Eudaimonia). However, the true meaning of “a happy life” cannot be precisely determined, for it usually means different things to different people at different points in their lives. Personally, for example, I think that I have a “happy life” at the time’s when I finally get to crack open the spine of a new book. Yet, in my opinion, the very concept of happiness is more of a surface level feeling that can alter at the drop of a dime. On the contrary, I associate the concept of eudaimonia as more of a soulful feeling; wait, not a feeling, a soulful knowing. I think it could be said that someone should not …show more content…
121-127). On the flip side, relativism, the other perspective on the nature of truth that the article spoke of, basically says that the truth is what we, our only human mindsets, make it to be (Anderson, p. 121-127). In that sense, although the notion of truth is not exactly tailored by one’s belief, it could be said that it is definitely guided by them. For instance, at one point in history, many people held the belief that the earth was the center of the universe, and thus, it was revered as the truth, until evidence eventually proved that it was actually false. Anyways, I learned in American Government the general concept of tolerance, which can be vaguely defined as the right of the other side to be wrong. I think that if they exercise this fundamental principle in our society today, both positions regarding the essence of truth can maintain a very fine lined coexistence, between one side of the equation or the other, or can