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The Pursuit of Happiness via Pleasure and Detachment

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

Are Extraverted People Happier

tend to be more self-confident, more positive, and more emotionally stable than unhappy people. When happy people are successful, ...

American Beauty - A Character Analysis

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

Wealth and Life Satisfaction

polls showed that Americans believed that the American Dream was more alive for immigrants than for Americans (Hanson & Zogby, 201...

Firoozeh Dumas' "Sweet, Sour, and Resentful"

example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...

The Nature of Happiness and Boethius

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Boethius' views of happiness. Arguments for and against are made. Paper uses one sou...

The Nature of Happiness, Jonathan Haidt

This research paper/essay provides a comprehensive overview and critique of Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis. Four p...

The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

This essay addresses issues in Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" and how he perceives what is good and virtuous and the relatio...

Humanity and Its Efforts

which is the root of the word (The humanities: still vital, 2009). And humanism as we know it today grew out of the Renaissance, a...

The Old Order Amish Societal Separation Liberty and Happiness

The United States is one of the few countries in the world that actually predicated its existence on the precepts of liberty...

Happiness Cannot Be Bought

selecting from perhaps "half a dozen kinds of pasta at the grocery store but find 27 choices overwhelming" (Begley, 2007). They ar...

"Jane Eyre" and the Repression of Societal Roles

Bronte condemns the repressive nature of gender-based societal roles by showing how it is Janes constant rebuking of the roles int...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

Happiness According to Aristotle

wisdom is real. Hence, there exists an objective, intrinsic morality. There is a right and wrong after all. Of course, determining...

Marital Emptiness and 'The Empty Nest Syndrome'

find out which empty nester experiences the least amount of stress and the most satisfying transition. It is hoped that the result...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

Happiness, Psychological Health, Scholastic Success, and Intelligence

be a two way argument, There is also little doubt that this did not bring him happiness. With these examples and the...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Sigmund Freud on Happiness

this path in the pursuit of happiness if there was no catch. The problem is, as Freud (1989) saw it was that love relationships al...

How to Live Well

however, the concept of happiness too has been the subject of considerably philosophical thought. There is even considerable cont...

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

something that most people would not necessarily feel needs to be laid down in stone, so to speak. One would imagine that, of cour...

The Way of the World by William Congreve

particular man, Mr. Fainall, is constantly trying to obtain money through devious means. One of those means involves his wife Mrs....

Emotion

of love, attention and guidance children received during infancy has a direct correlation with the emotional disturbance of unatta...

Work Relationships From an Aristotelian View

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

Human Behavior According to Freud and Nietzsche

is something that is not synonymous with love. At the same time, the sexual system is more than just something that involves a man...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Sexual Fidelity

psychological health and issues of survival are best accomplished within social structures. The concept of sexual fidelity explo...

Life and the Search for Meaning

full potential in relationship to this peace and joy within themselves Powell, 1995; 3). In Mans Search for Meaning by Vikt...

Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Enlightenment Values in the Character of Phaedra in Euripides’ Hippolytus

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...