The Good Life
Achieving the good life
John doe
PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Daniel Beteta
1 February 2013
I grew up in a small Midwest town called Anderson Indiana. Whenever people ask where I’m from and I say Indiana they think corn fields and country living but that’s far from the truth. In my experience I have seen corn fields everywhere but my home state. I have yet to see any farms or anything that would suggest country. One could question the dialect of Indiana residents. It has been said that most of the people migrated from the south to work at Guide Corp, a car plant that was the one good job in the city. Throughout the years Anderson has changed. The one good job that we had has left and with that so have the people. Most people have moved to Indianapolis to find work to support their family. The ones that stayed behind are either on welfare or continue to work the minimum wage jobs and struggle to support your family. People equate money with living the good life. Is that all that qualifies as living the good life? There have been many views as what constitutes as living the good life. In this paper we will discuss what is living the good life, does living the good life encourage one to want to give and how one can turn their life around to achieve the good life (success).
What is living the "good life" that question along with does god exist can be debated for years to come because good living can’t really be classified since it doesn’t have a definite answer. For those who think that having a lot of money is the key to a good life would consider life being good because they can buy anything they want when they want it and don’t really have a care in the world. Past lottery winners will tell you that money isn’t always a good thing to have. For example, there’s the two-time New Jersey lottery winner who squandered her $5.4 million fortune. A West Virginia man who won $315 million a decade ago on Christmas later said the windfall was to blame for his
John doe
PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Daniel Beteta
1 February 2013
I grew up in a small Midwest town called Anderson Indiana. Whenever people ask where I’m from and I say Indiana they think corn fields and country living but that’s far from the truth. In my experience I have seen corn fields everywhere but my home state. I have yet to see any farms or anything that would suggest country. One could question the dialect of Indiana residents. It has been said that most of the people migrated from the south to work at Guide Corp, a car plant that was the one good job in the city. Throughout the years Anderson has changed. The one good job that we had has left and with that so have the people. Most people have moved to Indianapolis to find work to support their family. The ones that stayed behind are either on welfare or continue to work the minimum wage jobs and struggle to support your family. People equate money with living the good life. Is that all that qualifies as living the good life? There have been many views as what constitutes as living the good life. In this paper we will discuss what is living the good life, does living the good life encourage one to want to give and how one can turn their life around to achieve the good life (success).
What is living the "good life" that question along with does god exist can be debated for years to come because good living can’t really be classified since it doesn’t have a definite answer. For those who think that having a lot of money is the key to a good life would consider life being good because they can buy anything they want when they want it and don’t really have a care in the world. Past lottery winners will tell you that money isn’t always a good thing to have. For example, there’s the two-time New Jersey lottery winner who squandered her $5.4 million fortune. A West Virginia man who won $315 million a decade ago on Christmas later said the windfall was to blame for his
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