Fermi paradox

Someone once said, “Happiness is like chasing a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. You will never find it if you look for it.” John Stuart Mill’s autobiography, “A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” (1909) argues that in order to be happy, one must secure their mind on something other than their own happiness. Under the realization that one's happiness is only attained by not making it the direct end, Mill approaches this subject by first giving examples of what makes one happy and…

There are many things in this world worth waiting for. Love, surprises, and rare occasions are among these cherished things that we as humans wait for. Even though I believe Edie made the wrong decision in waiting for Mr. Watters’s letter, somehow by a twist of fate she found her true love while waiting for a false one. The list of things in this world that are worth waiting for is quite a lengthly one, but I have three main things that I feel are at the top of the list. Love is something…

The Meaning of Happiness Mills indicates that one is in fact happy when they are in absent of pain. He describes how in life you have two options when it comes to happiness; prolonged or temporary happiness. When he describes both, and uses the term “classes” because of that fact that one you will earn and one is just simply there to hold you over until the next time you want to get that temporary set of happiness. It is well known in today’s society, that we are all choosing the temporary…

What defines a liar? A person who tells lies repeatedly. Greg Mortenson is a liar. In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson promotes the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but his fabricated stories, misuse of money, and continuous lies overshadow his positive efforts. Greg Mortenson is believed to be using his book to promote the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and…

Martin Seligman shares how people can become happier by discussing three different life styles in which individuals are happy. After sharing how happy people differ from the average person, — they are more social— he goes on to describe the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. In the pleasant life, individuals seek what makes them happy and surround their life around those items. The good life consists of individuals finding what their strengths are and integrating those…

Term Paper: Self-Examination Throughout the duration of this course, I have been given the opportunity to reflect and evaluate my life from a series of areas humanities has presented to me. Given that every angle one can approach the world from has its own value and significance when looking at our lives and the world we in, one subject has appealed most to me: the meaning of life. Life has a different meaning for everyone. Reading various works on what life means have engaged me to introspect…

Utilitarianism is known for being based on the principle of maximizing the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people. Jermey Bentham is the founder of this political school of thought. Bentham says that people are “under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure .” He uses these two masters as the justification for why his utilitarian system is the way that it is. Bentham’s utilitarianism focuses on the three factors: “the greatest individual pleasure or good”,…

Utilitarian is a moral theory that describes the best moral action is the one that maximizes utility. Utility is related to the well-being of conscious entities. It is a superior moral theory because it is impartial to individuals. It links happiness with morality, instead of possibly pitting happiness against morality. It makes sense with common beliefs about morality. For instance, in general, it backs up murder's being wrong, lying, rights. As well as, it is a universal theory.…

The preferred action that I have chosen is the most morally justified because it does not involve the sacrificing of an individual in the anticipation of benefiting another individual. It also shows the rights of the patient being exercised, her ability to use her autonomy and make an informed decision. Dr. Brown is assuming that he understands Anna’s situation, and using that assumption to assert his values and perceptions onto her. The main argument for act Utilitarianism is happiness being an…

The main principle of Mill’s utilitarianism is the greatest happiness principle, which is defined as: actions are right insofar as they maximize general utility, which Mill recognizes as happiness (Cahn & Markie, 2009). He argues that happiness is the only source of morality and that people never desire anything but happiness (Cahn & Markie, 2009). Mill supports this claim by displaying that all other objects of people’s desire are either means to happiness, or included in the definition of…