Secrets of Happiness: It may not be what you think it is NAGC Big Event‚ 28th October 2012 Dr Shoshana Garfield‚ PhD What Makes You Happy? What Makes You Distressed? Feeling Experience T h o u g h t h o u g h t T Outside In Living T h o u g h t What is ‘Thought’? • Non-verbal: – Even infants can be clinically depressed – Physical pain is so non-verbal it even‚ in the extremity of the moment‚ may eradicate the very capacity for language • Verbal: – 12‚000 to 50‚000 thoughts per day (National
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Pursuit of Happiness Happiness is not one thing; it means different things in different places‚ different societies‚ and different cultural contexts. There are multiple “pursuits of happiness”. It’s impossible to define "happiness". It’s left to each of us to define what "happiness" is. Happiness cannot be achieved in minutes it comes from the pursuit of happiness‚ Working towards and achieving goals. Pursuit of happiness differs from person to person and from culture
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Happiness‚ something that everyone strives for‚ but not everyone achieves. Happiness is intangible‚ its a feeling. In “ If you’re happy‚ and you know it” by Kwame Appiah he said‚ Happiness is a feeling‚ you are happy if you think you are happy.”(449). It is really is a state of mind. Some people might think that objects will bring you happiness‚ but none of this will ever make you truly happy. What gives people happiness‚ it really depends on the person. Different people want different things‚
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------------------------------------------------- Key Facts full title: Hard Times for These Times author: Charles Dickens type of work: Novel genre: Victorian novel; realist novel; satire; dystopia language: English time and place written: 1854‚ London date of first publication: Published in serial instalments in Dickens’s magazine Household Words between April 1 and August 12‚ 1854 publisher: Charles Dickens narrator: The anonymous narrator serves as a moral authority
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Dark Side of Utilitarianism According to Bentham‚ an English moral philosopher and legal reformer‚ the highest principle of morality is to maximize happiness‚ the overall balance of pleasure over pain. This principle explains the Utilitarianism doctrine that is mostly the solution of everyone in every century. Utilitarianism can bring the most benefit for people. In contrast‚ throughout the three stories “Justice” by John Stuart Mill‚ Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro‚ and “The One who Walks Away
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The term happiness cannot be contained or explained through words. No word is right word to explain the essence of happiness. Happiness is a spiritual element that is far beyond human explanation. It is eternal and human inheritance. The word happiness cannot make you happy like the word water cannot quench. For someone who is thirst must drink water and quench the throat. And the same thing is true with happiness. Happiness is not something verbal or to be induced from outside. No money‚ power‚
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The road to happiness “For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy [p. 117 top].” An expression of disdain for happiness generally means that it is other people’s happiness that you disdain. Maybe you selflessly sacrifice your own happiness for mankind; you still are apt to fall into envy of those happy people who are less noble‚ and harden your heart towards them‚ as has happened to many Communists. Theorists
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The Conquest of Happiness (London; Allen & Unwin‚ 1930): Full Text Preface This book is not addressed to the learned‚ or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about. No profound philosophy or deep erudition will be found in the follwing pages. I have aimed only at putting together some remarks which are inspired by what I hope is common sense. All that I claim for the recipes offered to the reader is that they are such as are confirmed by my own experience and
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original work but also extends to include remarks to criticisms of Utilitarianism. Mill believes that‚ like Bentham‚ utility is what is valuable to society. Utility‚ according to Mill‚ is the promotion of pleasure or the absence of pain. He defines this as happiness‚ which is why he refers to utility as the Greatest Happiness Principle (Mill 55). Thus‚ pleasure (or painlessness) is what society finds valuable. Because society finds happiness valuable‚ it must attempt to maximize total happiness. Mill
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