Questions tagged [happiness]
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Is it better to maximize my own happiness or maximizing the happiness of others around me so that I can feel happy for and with them?
Is it better to maximize my own happiness or maximizing the happiness of others around me so that I can feel happy for and with them?
Everybody makes sure they are happy --> Everybody is happy
Everybody makes sure everybody else is happy -->…
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What reasons, besides non-mental conditions of our lives and impoverishment, do philosophers give for the idea that well being isn't just mental?
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the article for happiness says:
In the face of these and other objections most commentators have concluded that neither happiness nor any other mental state can suffice for…
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How to be calm and content with what you have in life?
How can anyone be content and satisfied with the resorces they have? I am not talking about deprivation of basic necessaties like food, water, chothing and shelter. I am saying about the resources beyond these.
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Which philosophers would say I am not happy?
Suppose I was a fabulous person. Not just morally upright and virtuous, but I achieved numerous amazing things, too many to list. It's just that I received no benefit whatsoever from them. If anything, they were a noose. However, I feel fine. Am I…
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Is optimism delusion?
How can people be truly happy during the death of loved ones and in times of despair?
Is the world a happy or sad place only depending on your outlook?
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If the question is whether you have reason to be satisfied with your life, then why does your state of mind not matter?
Source: p 110-111 Top. Happiness: A Very Short Introduction (1 ed 2013) by Daniel M. Haybron.
Here, though, I am interested in the way we evaluate lives as they
are lived, or when looking back on them. The question is, when
are we justified…
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How can one enjoy permanent well-being?
This is the question everyone wants the answer to. And I am not sure that any one human, or even all of them, can answer it. But how can I experience permanent well-being, in spite of life's hardships?
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Is sadistic joy in the unhappiness of another person ever justified?
Is sadistic joy in the unhappiness of another person ever justified? I don't mean their physical or even mental pain but whether we are ever justified in enjoying the pillaging of someone's happiness, that they live a meaningless and empty…
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