John Stuart Mill Happiness

The theories that seek to explain what exactly happiness is, examine the different perspective of an individual’s being and look into how these perceptions relate to one another. The emotional state view, for instance, has some similarities with the hedonist theory in that it takes on arbitrary expansion. On the other hand, the importance of being happy is utterly subjective to an individual but not tied to how their life is going. It is, therefore, safe to assume that while happiness is an important concept, the importance if being happy can be looked at from different

How Socrates (2000) mention above that wealth does not create a wise person, but a wisdom creates the good deeds for people. (p.10). Consequently, his meaning about excellence and wealth is correct because excellence is wisdom, justice, and virtue and these things can not be bought for money. Firstly, one of the different types of excellence is a wisdom. Wisdom is not only to have deep knowledge and rests at the experience but also not to realize wise oneself and not to commit amiss things.

After seeing Della’s cut hair he discusses what is more valuable and that most would give you the “wrong answer,” however the “magi brought valuable gifts,” but they know the true meaning is not in the cost. To convey his message that love is worth more than physical objects, the author compares the wrong answer to the right answer, through use of allusion. Alluding to the magi, the author is able to further his ideologies that love has more impact on your happiness. O’Henry is declaring the true gift is not the actual physical gift but is instead the pure selfless thoughtfulness put into

Individuals will compare the cost and reward of their decision by which scenario benefits them more and cost them less. Now, one key element in rational choice theory is the belief that all action is fundamentally "rational " in character. (thoughtco.com) This differentiates it from other theories because it denies the essences of any other actions other than rational. So in all I would say that the dramaturgy theory complements the exchange theory, and would disagree with the rational choice theory. Even though, they are very close in ideal principles, rational choice doesn 't quite fit the theory of dramaturgy as well as exchange theory.

One must be able to balance their optimism and cynicism is the perfect way to counteract one overshadowing the other. In healthy doses and in appropriate matters, it allows people to think and be practical. It is better to be safe and doubt than to blindly trust and become unbearably naïve. Cynicism is not the total absence of hope or faith, but rather a perspective on how exactly that hope may be obtained or evaluating why you put your faith in certain people. Ultimately, the cynic is a mix of realism and skepticism.

To quote our text, virtue ethics focuses “not on what to do, but on what to be.” Therefore, virtue of ethics is not a set list of rules to which we look to help us in making good decisions, but rather a guide to obtaining “excellence” in character. The idea is to do all things good for no other reason than to be good, not to obtain something else. His reasoning is a bit circular in the sense that he does not give a clear-cut definition of what qualifies a person as virtuous. However, to be virtuous is to be pure, good, saintly, and essentially have a high moral standard, and having that characteristic alone will guide persons to make good decisions. Being virtuous, then, is doing something for no other reason than to be good.

It can't buy you love or happiness. And that is exactly what I am going to talk to you about today. You may think that you can buy happiness because you are happy with the things your money offers you. And you may be feeling happy with your possessions but it is not true and pure happiness. Some believe happiness is a deep feeling of serenity, contentment, and fulfilment.

And it also aims was to maximize the pleasure and reduce the pain that we have experienced. Also, Hedonism considered as philosophy on life, because it makes way to enlightenment in life to create a happiness in life, and to other, it may be a mischance or misfortune. Hedonism also considered as a crime or sin to any religious person, because it is immoral to God to have a self-happiness. But according to Non-Philosopher Hedonism is rather selfish, because it depends on the person if what makes him/ her happy. In this paper, it will show how hedonism affects

Their contribution to happiness is indirect, via the way they affect how we can engage in rational activity according to the relevant virtues. I will then object that this view threatens to make his overall account of happiness incoherent. Fortunately, there is a way to reconcile the apparent tensions, in book III. Any account of human happiness is subject to certain criteria to assess its satisfactoriness. One of the things we might

At first glance this theory seems to be a wonderful idea, however throughout this paper I will argue that Utilitarianism is not a successful account of morality. I will explain the flaws with utilitarianism, such as not caring about actions, and not having bias to other individuals. Utilitarianism can be broken down into three different principles. The first principle explains that the motivation to get to the final result does not matter as long as one gets the conclusion that makes society the happiest. For instance, if person A persistently asks another individual (person B) to hang out for a while but person B keeps saying no.