Stumbling on Happiness

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…

is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer. Happiness is a topic that has been debated by scientists and by regular members of society. Last month, I spoke about the effects of happiness with my sister and if it helps better your life. Happiness has been studied for scientific purposes and for philosophical meaning. Some researchers do find or believe that success can lead to happiness. Whether it is…

factors. The first element is the happiness, which is the must amount of happiness for the most amount of people. According to the principles of utilitarianism, the man is moved by the principle of the greatest happiness: this is the main criterion of all of his actions, personally and also publicly. At the same time it is applicable at the time of creating the law. An action is defined as successful if, it is useful or beneficial to succeed in finding maximum happiness. The second part is…

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…

it can do to your career. Achor relates happiness and positivity to a theory called positive psychology which is an outlook that can help people in the long run of their careers. Achor talks about happiness and how being creative and different can help their lives having skills in a variety of things. Achor wants people to fulfill their potential and succeed in life at their careers whatever it may be. He also talks about the fact that long term happiness is mostly perceived by the way your…

A life review is critical for a nurse to complete for an elderly person or patient. The life review allows the individual to reflect on the happier times and the challenging moments that occurred during their life. This permits the patient to reflect on their life experiences and to appraise the impact they shared with the world and others. Generally, people do not realize the considerable impact they have had on the world or on other people. In this life review paper I would like to discover…