Happiness : The Most Important Values Of Happiness

$100,000 a year in a world where the average income is $150,000, a majority typically chooses the former”. (Lee) This is caused by humans need to feel superior above others around them. This is one of the main determinants in ranking the level of happiness for people in middle to upper-class society. Whenever someone is “among people richer than oneself can be detrimental to well-being” (Boyce 471), because they think of themselves as not good enough compared to those around them. But when moving onto

morality, Mill claims that the utilitarian must claim that happiness happens to be the one and only thing that is desirable in itself. He also claims that the only proof of desirability is desire and goes ahead to give an argument that happiness happens to be the one and only thing that should be desired (Selling, 2016). Most importantly, Mill argues that an individual does desire his own happiness for its personal reasons and that makes happiness to be desired by and becomes desirable for its own sake

cultural values. Money can buy happiness if they spend it right. Materialist need money because being able to buy everything they want is happiness to them but they just have to spend it correctly. There are people who have these big dreams and goals but don't have the money needed to achieve them. For the people who wish if they only had enough money to make it by, they would be happy or at least feel better. Some are spiritual and know that money is nice to have but it's not true happiness. Spiritual

Philosophy 1 Final Prompt #1 Value and Meaning Nozick had clear definitions of value and meaning in The Examined Life that can be applied to anyone’s life. According to Nozick, “meaning involves a connection to something beyond internal boundaries”, or values. He also says values possess an internal unified coherence, which are split into two categories: instrumental and intrinsic. According to his definition, there is only certain aspects of life that have meaning and value and there could be changes

life better. It is surprising, then, that the most plausible form of hedonism is desire satisfactionism. The hedonism theory focuses on pleasure/happiness while the desire-satisfaction theory elucidates the relevance of fulfilling our desires. Pleasure, in some points of view is the subjective satisfaction of desire. I will explain the similarities and the differences between the desire-satisfaction theory of value and hedonism. I will also discuss the most successful theory and defend my argument by

is the desire to obtain happiness. Many articles have been written about the pursuit of happiness and how one can attain it. With an assortment of articles over the topic, it is only natural for many different views and ideas to be expressed by the numerous authors. Despite the many differences of opinions and beliefs of many authors, they all agree that happiness comes from helping others, living to a person’s own values, and knowing what the true definition of happiness is. Carlin Flora’s article

and Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a moral approach that believes `` the supreme principle of morality is to produce as much happiness as possible`` (118). And ``There is in reality nothing desired except happiness`` (118). Utilitarianism evaluates the action according on the amount of happiness. The good action is the one that its result is the most desirable happiness. I choose this approach because I think, if every person in our earth tries to act by this approach, all wars, conflicts, cruelties

decades ago. With the advancement of technology, conveniences like these have been made possible through being able to just charge everything—this has become a national addiction. There is still a magnitude of people who would say money couldn’t buy happiness but the truth is a lot more in depth than that; money does in fact play an essential role in everyone’s overall life gratification. Even though there is that urge and desire for materialistic goods, people are still sometimes caught in the dilemma

plugged into these machines that allow them to choose any pleasurable acts for duration of two years, and then at the end of the two years, they are allowed to choose more acts that would make them happy. Nozick gives objections to the theory that happiness is the only thing desirable for its own sake by arguing that being aware of reality is vital for it allows the person to actually live their life and not live life as an unknown being. When Nozick claims that “Plugging into the machine is a kind

is achieved when we accept the fact that we were not put on this Earth to serve the demands of others and by doing so we surrender our lives to be used as property for the sake of another’s gain. Once these values can be grasped and understood and we learn to fight for our personal happiness above all else will we “will learn to live like men” because we will accredit pride as the reason and sum of our virtues. Louis Pojman is a philosopher and critique of Rand’s theories on ethical egoism and