Consumerism and Happiness Essay

Money Doesn’t Always Buy Happiness Today in our day and age, there has been one topic that comes up that has been a controversy for people all over the world: money. Scientist have studied that, “Money does buys happiness, but it buys less than most people think,” (Dunn, Gilbert, Wilson, 2011, pg. 115). Some people believe that the more money that they have, the happier they will be. Others believe that money is the epitome of unhappiness because it can cause a barrier between them and those…

History majors have become somewhat of a joke these days in regards to economic and job security. However, being a history major has plenty of upsides and many people do not see the bigger picture when deciding what major they want to be. As I entered my freshman year of college, I came in as a chemistry major with a secondary education track to teach chemistry in high schools. I thought that’s what I should do even though history was always my first love. My mom, however, told me that I’d never…

amount of happiness for the general well-being. Furthermore, Mill believes that the concept of morality contains two of the main utilities in the Greatest Happiness Principle: a person’s actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. This means that all other desires a person has are to fulfill these actions. Mills acknowledges that the overly simplistic idea of the Happiness Principle may cause human happiness to seem…

Finding the Good Life in Symposium There are a wide range of translations of what the great life genuinely is. Individualists trust that the great life is satisfying oneself, while utilitarians trust that the great life is representing the benefit of whatever is left of society. Rationalists, as well, have their own understanding. Plato suggests the logician's great life when he utilizes the expression "my most noteworthy delight." The inalienable subjectivity of "my" tells the peruser that…

Happiness is not something tangible we can grasp but yet it is what we all seek. We try to fulfill the feeling of happiness by buying materialistic commodities, hanging out with love ones, and even buying a pet, the list goes on different individuals have different expectations for happiness. Happiness changes over time it is never one stationary goal. In Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi Happiness Revisited begins by explaining that we are no longer closer to finding happiness than twenty-three hundred…

they find most important, and their idea of happiness might be different. This is because of their culture. Every culture is diverse. Each culture eats different food, has different superstitions, religions, and even different ways of defining and expressing happiness. Realizing that nations and cultures have significant differences in their definitions, values, and ways of expressing happiness is important when considering a nations overall happiness. Factors such as democracy, genes, and even…

It is quite easy for people to forget the simple pleasures of life due to many stressors and other distractions that surround us. Many people forgot, or even may not have experienced a pleasure such as adventure. Adventure brings excitement to one’s life because it offers new experiences and new understanding of the world around us. Jonathan Swift explains the pleasure of adventure and travel most explicitly in his most well-known novel Gulliver’s Travels. Written in 1726, Jonathan Swift uses…

Capitalism Hinders our Ability to Love but Cannot Stop It Love is the greatest feeling in the world. It should be easy, pure, and free. Everybody should be able to love themselves and each other without hesitation. It should be easy to find love, to stay in love and that love should last forever. But we know that is not true, it is not even possible because capitalism hinder our ability to love. Capitalism is one of the main reason that we cannot love ourselves and each other. There are…

In many cases, knowing about something can make life a little better, however knowing, can also make someone's life turn upside down. In the texts “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes and the biblical story “The Garden of Eden” the author shows that people who are not as intelligent as most, such as Charlie, Adam, and Eve, lived happier when they did not notice the troubles of the world. These texts portray the theme of ignorance is bliss, meaning not knowing about it leads to not worrying…

While passing through life, it’s difficult to comprehend and appreciate the value of what is currently happening. While looking back however, clarity and wishful regret develops as it is easier to assess the significance the former situation. Much like how experiences tend to be unknowingly taken for granted, sacrifices evoke the same sense of contrition, or of a tragedy, as what has now ended can no longer be given the respect or understanding that it deserves. In Othello by Shakespeare,…