Cherophobia – Fear of Happiness According to Western cultures such as the American culture‚ people are driven by the need to be happy and filled with positive feelings. But it is very interesting to know that new studies have shown that “in reality‚ some people don’t want to be happy‚ and especially extremely happy” (Pappas). The problem is not with the good feeling of happiness; the problem is with the horrible event that is bound to happen afterwards‚ which will cause great sadness. Cherophobia
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This theory advocates that the actions worth is determined by maximizing utility (pleasure or happiness).it looks at the consequence of an action as to whether the outcome is good to the majority of people affected by it. According to Bentham‚ utilitarianism is the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle. There are many types of this theory which include act vs. rule‚ two level‚ motive‚ negative and average vs. total. (Clifford G.‚ John C. 2009) In act utilitarianism‚ when people have to
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The Existence of Happiness Happiness‚ the intangible emotion that we all desire. Is there proof that this emotion even exists? Eduardo Porter has written an essay titled “What Happiness Is”. In this essay Mr. Porter took the time to study the emotion of happiness that we all experience in life. He makes an attempt to question not only his reasons as to why he is happy‚ but to have the reader question their own sense of happiness as well. What is it that makes us feel joyful emotions‚ and how can
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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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Cheating Our Brains into Happiness Jane McGonigal is a prominent game developer who has dedicated her recent years to developing games that try to help the world out instead of just entertaining a few. In the tenth chapter of her book Reality is Broken‚ she argues that happiness levels in the United States and around the world are alarmingly low‚ and people are very depressed. She then introduces a term called “Happiness Hacking”. McGonigal herself defines it as “…the experimental design practice
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I choosed to talk about happiness cause it is one of the many emotions humans experience. It may perhaps be the most important feeling a person can have and it is the one feeling everyone strives to achieve. Not many people are happy‚ but all the librairies are filled with books on happiness‚ and this very fact make me curious. But‚ what really matter for happiness? This is my research question. I expected to find if life really about the money‚ the cash‚ who has the biggest gold chain or who drives
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About happiness Nowadays‚ people usually like to say “I’m not happy” in every single day. No matter what has happened or actually there is nothing wrong with them. It already becomes young people’s tap. Whenever you ask them whether they are happy‚ their answer is negative. What is the cause of people’s lack of happiness? Is that because they can not eat enough or don’t have clothes to dress? The answer is an absolute no. People’s living standard has never reached such a high level‚ and now people
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Chapter 1 The Philosophy of Happiness Aristotle on Happiness Since the earliest days of Western thought philosophers have concerned themselves with the nature of happiness. One of the earliest to ask the question ‘what is happiness?’ was Aristotle‚ who‚ in a manner typical of philosophers‚ before providing an answer insisted on making a distinction between two different questions. His first question was what was meant by the word ‘happiness’—or rather‚ its ancient Greek equivalent eudaimonia. His
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Anna Ramirez Per.1 The Meaning of Happiness What does it mean to be happy? It seems that this is another one of those questions that no one knows the answer to‚ yet I am determined to find it. So what is happiness? What is it that makes us feel that certain feeling that none of us can really put our finger on? Of course there’s the simple‚ boring response that any scientist can tell you. Happiness is an experience that we know happens when there are certain levels of different chemicals in
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What is Happiness? People travel through life with what seems like a single goal: to be happy. This may seem like a selfish way to live‚ however this lone objective is the motivation behind nearly all actions. Even seemingly selfless deeds make people feel better about themselves. That warm feeling experienced while doing charitable acts can be described as happiness. But what is authentic happiness? There is an endless possibility of answers to this question‚ and man seems to be always searching
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