I will be arguing that Happiness is the only thing of intrinsic value in human life by proving hedonism is true. Hedonism believes that in life the highest goal is happiness.
I will use be using different explanations about personal experiences, experiences of others, and hedonism to explain why happiness is the only thing of intrinsic value in human life. These explanations will show that each decision we make, we make based on the happiness and pleasure they will bring to our lives therefore hedonism is true. The first explanation will show how personal experience leads to happiness and how making these decisions to better you lead to happiness. The second explanation will show how the experiences of others lead to happiness as well. The …show more content…
For example, my boyfriend was trying to find a job once he graduated from college, and everyone knows finding a job isn’t easy. He decided to accept a job as a teaching assistant, which isn’t full time rather than accepting a job at UPS, which was full time with benefits. As the reader, seeing that he turned down full-time pay with benefits, I know you are thinking he is out of his mind. But really it is not about the money to him, it is about what makes him happy. As I said before, you go to college to get a degree so that you can get a job that makes you happy and that’s what he did. As the reader, you might also ask why he turned down the job at UPS and accepted the job in the classroom. He accepted the teacher assistant position because he knew he wanted to teach before he graduated. He also chose the job that he could see himself doing years later in life. He works great with kids and it is truly what makes him happy. He doesn’t dread going to work every day either; he does what he loves to do. This argument leads to hedonism because even though there was a job that paid better he still chose the job that made him happier. His main goal was also …show more content…
As I said earlier, hedonism believes that in life the highest goal is happiness. Suppose there is a machine that will fulfill any of your wants, needs, or anything at all as long as it brings you happiness or pleasure. This machine will give you any experience you desired (Nozick, The Experience Machine, 644). “Super-duper psychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain” (Nozick, The Experience Machine, 644). You will be able to pick from a broad library of life experiences selecting the experiences you would like to gain for the next 2 years. After those 2 years have passed, you can come out of the tank for ten minutes or maybe even ten hours, to choose your next life experiences for the next 2 years. As the reader, you may say that you wouldn’t go inside the machine because it’s just the thought of being in a machine that makes you scared. Nozick goes on to say, “Of course, while in the tank you won’t know that you’re there; you’ll think it’s all actually happening” (Nozick The Experience Machine 644). So why would you not go inside the machine, you really wouldn’t know you were in there. You actually have this chance to bypass all the negative and bad things that come and go in life, to
I will use be using different explanations about personal experiences, experiences of others, and hedonism to explain why happiness is the only thing of intrinsic value in human life. These explanations will show that each decision we make, we make based on the happiness and pleasure they will bring to our lives therefore hedonism is true. The first explanation will show how personal experience leads to happiness and how making these decisions to better you lead to happiness. The second explanation will show how the experiences of others lead to happiness as well. The …show more content…
For example, my boyfriend was trying to find a job once he graduated from college, and everyone knows finding a job isn’t easy. He decided to accept a job as a teaching assistant, which isn’t full time rather than accepting a job at UPS, which was full time with benefits. As the reader, seeing that he turned down full-time pay with benefits, I know you are thinking he is out of his mind. But really it is not about the money to him, it is about what makes him happy. As I said before, you go to college to get a degree so that you can get a job that makes you happy and that’s what he did. As the reader, you might also ask why he turned down the job at UPS and accepted the job in the classroom. He accepted the teacher assistant position because he knew he wanted to teach before he graduated. He also chose the job that he could see himself doing years later in life. He works great with kids and it is truly what makes him happy. He doesn’t dread going to work every day either; he does what he loves to do. This argument leads to hedonism because even though there was a job that paid better he still chose the job that made him happier. His main goal was also …show more content…
As I said earlier, hedonism believes that in life the highest goal is happiness. Suppose there is a machine that will fulfill any of your wants, needs, or anything at all as long as it brings you happiness or pleasure. This machine will give you any experience you desired (Nozick, The Experience Machine, 644). “Super-duper psychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain” (Nozick, The Experience Machine, 644). You will be able to pick from a broad library of life experiences selecting the experiences you would like to gain for the next 2 years. After those 2 years have passed, you can come out of the tank for ten minutes or maybe even ten hours, to choose your next life experiences for the next 2 years. As the reader, you may say that you wouldn’t go inside the machine because it’s just the thought of being in a machine that makes you scared. Nozick goes on to say, “Of course, while in the tank you won’t know that you’re there; you’ll think it’s all actually happening” (Nozick The Experience Machine 644). So why would you not go inside the machine, you really wouldn’t know you were in there. You actually have this chance to bypass all the negative and bad things that come and go in life, to