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Towards Universal Happiness: Issues, Insights/Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges in Business Ethics

and respect diversity within the corporate environment, but not leveraging it in order to gain commercially at the cost of others....

Egyptian Religion and Ancient Hebrew Religion Compared

(Ancient Egyptian Religion, 2003). In terms of origin tales, the Egyptians had several ideas about how the world began (...

Mary Rowlandson's "Sovereignty and the Goodness of God" and Religion's Role in the Text

numbers. However, early on, they read more like a church sermon that Mary had been conditioned to recite from early childhood. I...

Achieving Sense of Well-Being

A relatively new branch in psychology is positive psychology. Maslow coined the name for this branch. It is a field that looks at ...

Positive Thinking: Increases Happiness

is honest with oneself and aware of the control one has over ones outlook, overcoming sadness-inducing obstacles becomes easier an...

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 ...

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...

How to Live Well

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

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...

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...

Comparison of Thomas Aquinas's Writings and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

Happiness Levels and Life Span Development

search for sameness; "a synthesis is the making of a collection, the finding of a pattern ... [W]hen we synthesize, we make a new ...

Happiness As Defined by Aristotle, Is It Still Relevant?

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson

only one who is not happy. It is not as if the reader has to identify with him in order to understand the point, which is that no ...

Discontent and Happiness in Community

people come together for a common purpose and rely upon one another in some way. Therefore, the benefits of a community are a sen...

How Aristotle Defines the Good Life

philosopher, would aid in curtailing discord while broadening the trust that must exist between peoples. Using the Myth of ...

Happiness Concept of Aristotle

explains that most men identify good, or happiness, with mere pleasure and that is the first type of life. Many are familiar with ...

Aristotle's Concepts of Excellence and Happiness

being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...

Happiness, Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotle

not likely to live a pleasant life unless you practice moderation; the Epicurean philosophy was an argument for a traditionally mo...

Happiness and Morality According to Aristotle

a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

Female Protagonists in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages each female character's questions about happiness are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Summarized and Analyzed

In five pages this paper presents a summary of Frank McCourt's text and analyzes it in order to determine the meaning besides mise...

Kantian Concept Happiness and Metaphysics of Morals

In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill on Happiness

In six pages this paper contrasts the utilitarian concept of John Stuart Mill with the true happiness theory of Aristotle. Five s...

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...