While taking an intro philosophy class last semester I read many interesting philosophical arguments, but the most interesting was an argument by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau's argument, or the interesting part of the argument, is called amour-propre; that esteem depends upon the opinion of others. I found this argument to be relevant to what we are discussing now, more specifically how the others opinions and societal pressure impact our ideas of the good life. Although I think that the good life can only be defined by the individual, Rousseau brought up some interesting points about how people cannot derived their own values without the opinions of others. For example, if someone achieves something notice worthy and do not receive notice
