Happiness economics

Developing Spiritual and Psychological Wellbeing through the Sabbath Manifesto Growing up in an age where libraries of information are located at one’s fingertips and connections can be made across countries through small screens, the world is a fast moving place. In a fast paced world that seems to be getting busier and busier, disconnecting from this modern lifestyle has the ability to enhance one’s spiritual and psychological wellbeing. A non-profit Jewish community named Reboot created the…

It is inherently human to crave happiness and act with one’s own best interest in mind. It would be illogical to seek out pain or grief, especially if we assume that this is our only life to experience pleasure. If there is no afterlife, then it would make sense for us to spend the time we do have maximizing our personal well-being. The “Ring of Gyges,” an excerpt from Plato’s Republic, addresses the question of whether an unjust man experiences more happiness, or goodness, than a just man. In…

because of these chemicals. Some negative habits may feel good temporarily while doing them, but they 're very risky. Just understand that happiness can quickly turn into sadness because of…

Knowing happiness, then to the filling of overwhelmed emptiness is something to become with apprehension of the steps to go into the correct way. The perception to help recover what will lead to furthering the steps of happiness can be said to make happiness possible. Discover “the key that unlocks the doors of wisdom, happiness, and truth” is the steps or the way that should be chosen (Hoff 407). It can likewise be said “to go nowhere and do nothing is the beginning step towards finding peace”…

different path to achieve happiness and good life. After reading various texts around happiness my view has changed about what is involved in being happy. During childhood days I always wish chocolates. Most of the time my parent refuses to give me candy or chocolates which I never liked. I used to be happy when someone gives me chocolates. So far I believed that chocolates were one of the reasons for my happiness during childhood. Now, I realized that it was just pleasure and Happiness is not…

the questions of what is the good life and how does one achieve it. In order to have this good life, one needs to be close to God. God is true, therefore all that he creates is true—art, beauty, nature. The key to the good life is through truth, happiness, and compassion, and they all lead back to God. The good life…

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness is a self-help type of book written by writer and teacher of positive psychology, Tal Ben-Shahar. He is also a consultant, expert on organizational behavior, and teaches an extremely popular course on “happiness” at Harvard University. In Choosing the Life You Want, Ben-Shahar wants to help you do exactly that—choose the life that you want to live. It is important to note that the book is comprised of about 102 chapters, although each is…

Growing up as a hispanic woman in America has always been more difficult than I thought it was going to be. There were many times where I felt excluded, judged or like I am not as good as other people. Throughout my life this has always affected my happiness because it was never as easy as I wanted it to be. With that being said, many people that are also a different race also struggle with this problem and this affects their wellbeing as well. I came to realize what a struggle being a person of…

Aristotle notes that most people agree that the highest ‘good’ is happiness, or eudaemonia, yet most people have trouble concurring to what prompts happiness. To uncover the path to happiness, “One must begin from what is known,” (Nic. Ethics 1095b2-3) which is extrapolated from Aristotle’s example of an immature young person. Recurrently, Aristotle has not lucidly defined how…

In Antigone, by Jean Anouilh, the character Antigone best represents the ethical idea of the ethic of duty. The ethic of duty, according to Immanuel Kant, is that “we recognize our duty to behave morally toward all humanity and act accordingly,” (Ethical Ideas 292). This means that no matter what, people find a way to treat others right. Throughout the play, she continues to want to go bury her brother since she knows that is what is right. No matter how many times her Uncle Creon tried to talk…