Introduction The definition of happiness and pleasure, is something that from a very early age the human being has always wondered what it is? And as one can achieve and have a pleasant life, the philosopher Epicurus in one of his letters wrote the Letter to Menem, which talks about the happiness and the pleasure and thoughts that man forms while he is alive, I propose in this work to make reflections that The philosopher Epicurus does about what is really happiness? And how can I get it fully, see the connection through the philosophy and health of the spirit (the mind). The philosopher Epicurus mentions that man often forget that he is not an immortal being and that he cares too much about death. For Epicurus we need to leave this idea aside and …show more content…
Letter on Happiness (Mentioned) Having love of wisdom does not take days, nor months, nor the right age to be able to dedicate ourselves to it, we can dedicate ourselves since young people, because it is useful to us both when we are young and when we are a more advanced age, Young woman she gives us the security of being able to grow old without being afraid of the experiences of life that are to come and for those who are aging to have the pleasure to remember the experiences that already happened and how important they were for the being that it is, And represents the medium where it is inserted. We often wonder how I can live well? And we forget to look at things that we can mirror and grow with them, we can say that living well is like cultivating a plant, which is to take care of it, to know its growth stages, the climate that best adapts to its growth, Right time to give, from this same idea we start from how can I live? Epicurus at the beginning of the book comes to speak, that for and to live well it is necessary to cultivate, to take care of the things that bring us happiness because with it we have everything and without it we do nothing and always strive to the maximum to arrive at this state of mind
Epictetus I really feel that quote is deep I will explain on that topic later on in the paper. He was really ahead of his time. I chose Epictetus because he stated facts in my opinion, also he was a slave, and he stands on what he believes. I feel like as a result of his stoic philosophy teaching that his thoughts live on even in today era. Let me elaborate with the slave accusations.
I agree with Epicurus’ teachings on desire and happiness. In today’s society people make decisions based on unnecessary desires in an attempt to find happiness. You could even go as far as to say that this is the root of society’s problems. Today, money equals happiness. This leads to corruption and a majority of our population living a materialistic
There are essentially two kinds of happiness: the first being an ordinary, and unreliable happiness formed on the reliance of physical comfort and artificial feelings. The other is a deep and lasting happiness which comes from within. This true happiness comes from a sense of inner complacency that is not dependent on external happenings. Exemplified by the stories of their lives, Hermann Hesse and Paulo Coelho channel the idea of the genuine existence of destiny, but also the continuous opportunity to this achieve happiness, in their works Siddhartha and The Alchemist. Using the wisdom the protagonists obtained from their own personal journeys, both Hesse and Coelho convey the great importance of sacrificing common human pleasures, such as
Epicurus states that humans cannot be unjust to animals because to be unjust we would need to have a contract with the animals and because they do not speak we can’t do that. However even if we do not have a moral contract we should still look at the way we treat animals as many ways are too cruel and we don’t blink an eye but we need to. Epicurus says that justice is a contract or an agreement to neither harm nor be harmed. Humans invent justice by making contracts with each other. The purpose of the agreement is to make other’s happy the laws must be just, make others happy and be useful.
1. I think the point Epictetus is making, is that the action the person is doing isn’t irritating, but the way you, yourself interprets/perceives the action is what irritates you. For example, my cousin told me a joke and we both were laughing. I shoved her shoulder because I agreed that the joke was funny. She got annoyed because I shoved her.
People miss the fact that happiness comes from within. In an attempt to find joy – we must also be cautious about over excessive desire to acquire material objects and wealth. There is a delicate balance that must be reached between the pursuit of happiness, satisfaction, and contentment. While there are many conditions that fulfill ones emotional wellbeing, happiness and how we acquired it, depends upon the
Another one is related to the nature of well-being. While hedonism thinks pleasure is constituent of well-being’s nature and all sources of well-being are reducible to pleasure, the theory of authentic happiness claims that pleasure is just one of the sources of well-being. Authentic happiness theory makes two objections regarding the hedonist definition of the nature of
It is critical to recognize Mill’s argument that a degree of contentment can exist in periods of less happiness. However, Aristotle’s view of perceiving wellbeing or goodness as ultimate is more pronounced. Worth emphasizing, Aristotle deeply explores his arguments basing them on functions of a rational man and virtues out of habits. Today, a virtuous citizen is one whose actions are inward, in response to conscience and moral obligations as a member of society. Such a person, not waivered with intensities of pleasures, honor, and wealth but seeks to have a satisfactory level of happiness with friends, co-workers, and family among other
Letter to Meneoceus Epicurus’ views are the views of a hedonist; the only thing that is intrinsically good is pleasure. By pleasure, Epicurus did not mean a sexual pleasure, but the “absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul” (Epicurus, n.d., p. 3), which meant that pleasure is the absence of pain, so removal of pain equals pleasure. Epicurus believed that living a calm life was better than living a thrilling life. However, a calm life would be boring and without purpose compared to a thrilling life. A thrilling life does not necessarily mean creating excitement in everything one does, but living a meaningful life without being too precarious to avoid pain.
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the concept of happiness is introduced as the ultimate good one can achieve in life as well as the ultimate goal of human existence. As Aristotle goes on to further define happiness, one can see that his concept is much different from the 21st-century view. Aristotelian happiness can be achieved through choosing to live the contemplative life, which would naturally encompass moralistic virtue. This differs significantly from the modern view of happiness, which is heavily reliant on material goods. To a person in the 21st-century, happiness is simply an emotional byproduct one experiences as a result of acquiring material goods.
This book is a debate between Cicero and a possibly fictional agent used to bounce ideas and criticisms off of. Primarily about what our ultimate and final goals in life are, as well as what is the greatest good vs evil. In this, Cicero criticizes Epicurus’s work on physics, logic, and finally Epicureanism itself. After this, the fictional character responds with his own answer. Ignoring physics at the moment, but instead choosing to discuss pleasure, the heart of Epicureanism.
Finding life’s aim is comparable to finding happiness. As discussed in Plato at the 92nd Street Y, life’s aim is hypothesized as becoming “the super-best [person] they can be, to realize their own personhood.” Unlike the classical philosophers, Csikszentmihalyi does not agree that pursuing goals such as becoming the “super-best person” will bring happiness, but rather is directly associated on how we control our inner lives. However, Csikszentmihalyi writes how “we cannot reach happiness by consciously searching for it” (2). The first step to this theory begins with achieving control over our consciousness by accepting how forces beyond our control influence the perceptions of our lives.
The cause of one’s happiness is that they possess good things. Look at Socrates, he has philosophy. Think about some of the good things in the world—sports, money, and even philosophy. Obtaining these good things are what lead to happiness. Would you like me to help you find one of these to satisfy you (205D)?
At the end of everyone’s lives, the goal appears to be about attaining happiness. Describing how to obtain happiness has been an issue that was debated in the past but is still talked about now . In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle expands on his view of happiness and he focuses particularly on how reason helps recognize and pursue what will lead to happiness and the good life. I feel that Aristotle’s philosophies on happiness are important works within the field of philosophy and he considered one of the………of it . In this paper, I will explore Aristotle’s beliefs regarding happiness then compare and contrast them to those of Martin Seligman.
In this essay, I will be discussing Aristotle’s conception of the “good life” which he outlined in the Nicomachean Ethics. As we will see, the “good life” for man according to Aristotle is one where we perform the particular activity which is distinctly ours and guides us towards eudaimonia – sometimes translated as ‘happiness’ or ‘well-being’. He shows us how the other conflicting depictions of the ‘good life’ are misguided, and how we should aim for a life of reason. First, however, I will discuss briefly what Aristotle meant by the term ‘good’ and then move on to how he arrived at the conclusion on human happiness. Aristotle believes that the ‘good life’ for a particular organism depends on what that organism is and the conditions it requires