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A Comparison Of Happiness And Happiness

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Philosophers have long since debated how one can achieve true and pure happiness. There is not just one answer to being happy, there are many things that affect one’s ability to be happy. Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Plato make what many feel to be valid arguments on how we might achieve living a happy life. Plato says we need to essentially remove ourselves from the world and focus on the intellectual side. Some might argue that this can tie into the view of Christianity. Christianity helps us know what it is we can do, as well as what it is we should not do, in order to gain happiness. On the opposing side of that though, philosophers like Kant and Nietzsche argue that it is up to the individual to achieve happiness. Reason and virtue are what lead us to gain knowledge and it is knowledge which will then helps us be truly happy. Even though Kant and Nietzsche do not completely see eye to eye, it is apparent that one thing they do agree on is that you cannot count on other people to achieve your own happiness.

Kant’s
“Sapere aude! ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.” Reason helps us become virtuous and having virtue leads to us living a happy life. Many times, Kant stresses the fact that laziness and fear have made individuals allow others to rule over them. People no longer make decisions for themselves, they are completely reliant on others to tell them how to live. He summarizes this by saying, “If I have a book,

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