Stumbling on Happiness

significant concepts in understanding autotelism and the feeling of significance in relation to human nature. These ideas are isolated components of the holistic field of human flourishing; an area of psychology dedicated to comprehending well-being, happiness and the way we thrive. An aspect of my life that I feel I can best attribute these concepts to is my appreciation of mathematics. Though flow is often associated with creative activities, my personal process of solving complex numerical…

Amongst those in society, a great number of individuals strive for happiness. Countless amounts of studies, alongside articles of a large variety of topics, have been undertaken in order to satisfy this boundless need for permanent bliss. Contrary to the standard assumption, the happiness one tries so desperately to grasp is not dependent to what is done, rather it relies on how it is done. The documentary Happy directed by Roko Belic provides a similar point which proposes that being happy is…

to boost a person’s overall happiness. The most accepted view is that happiness can be bought with a sufficient amount of money. However, numerous people neglect to see that happiness is neither determined by one factor nor does it correspond with material possessions. First, it is clear that humans are one of the only species that create such complex social networks. Given this, it isn’t any wonder on how our social relationships are a strong influence on our happiness. That is, it…

Fed Up goes into depth on how big private corporations and the American government benefits from the exploitation and miseducation of it’s citizens as it relates to health. What the government does to hide the truth about food, sugar, and its relation to obesity is in direct violation of the Social Contract Theory. The Social Contract Theory argues that people should put their self-interest behind them and make decisions that benefit everyone rather than just make them better off. Corporations…

one has come up with an answer that shows that life has a purpose (Freud, 25). Additionally, Freud states that religion as come up with the most satisfactory answer (Freud, 24). As a result, Freud’s assessment of “civilization” as a place where happiness is difficult to achieve relates Freud 's theory of instinct which include the id, ego and superego. Freud describes that the most important…

Happiness, a form of wellness that comes from within the soul, an expression of gratitude, kindness and a form of close relationships that form around a static drive for happiness. The American dream, being able to achieve your goals and live in prosperity, to render a greater level of happiness. The wealthy is recognized by a majority of people at the moment of time as delighted and stress-free. Yet the statistics the film provides disproves this hypothesis and presents evidence, from…

When I asked my family what they thought the word pleasure meant, I received several answers all of which connected pleasure to happiness or joy, but that’s not what pleasure truly is; not to Aristotle at least. The definition to pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics is “Pleasure together with pain, a crucial determinant of human action and hence crucial to Aristotle’s account of moral virtue and vice. The noun supplies the root of the English term hedonism, that is, the philosophic doctrine…

Have you ever imagined your life being written as a story where you are acting as the protagonist in the story and you are playing out a particular character? This is how Aristotle views human life as. He states that when we are first born, we are born into a story. Your character is born into a specific role that you must play. So you were born into a family, you are expected to be a daughter and play the role as a daughter. You were born into this role; it is not something that is a chosen…

If money can buy happiness, then why are the wealthy not constantly happy and the poor constantly upset? Fancy clothes, nice cars, and big houses are equivalent to someone’s happiness right? Wrong. People do not need to have any of these things to actually be happy in life long-term. According to the economist Tibor Scitovsky, happiness is defined by,” work satisfaction, friendship, and the pleasures of solitary thought, reading, and other forms of non-commercial leisure” (Lane). If this is the…

In multiple ways the lives of many individuals have improved and have been made better due to the advancement of technology. It can be said that technology has ruined the human connection in many aspects of our current world. With the rise of mankind with technology there are many faults and many benefits of having technology. In this essay I will explore and explain how a person may live a better life than another. How living a good life should be understood in both the material and the…