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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

How to Live Well

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

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...

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....

Theme of Happiness in "Brave New World"

they are dull-witted animals fit only for manual labor (Huxley). The idea of manufacturing sentient beings and then using chemical...

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...

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...

A Sensory Perception of Happiness: The Beach

It too can visually vary in color. On sunny days it is bright and inviting. When a storm is on the way, however, the color turns...

Happiness as found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

Money Can't Buy Happiness

this one from the Chief Medical Health Officer of Vancouver Island (Canada), relates low income to significant health problems: "....

Happiness, Life, and Short Essays

make jokes about someones sexuality is considered, at least in the circles that I hang in, to be lame and beneath contempt. Also...

Labyrinth, Happiness, and Perspective Ideological Shifts

voice to the grown up man that the young boy has become. He laments the fact that the labyrinths of life became difficult and stai...

Happiness According to Immanuel Kant and Aristotle

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

Literature Review on the Effects of Illness on Marital Happiness

In ten pages this essay presents a review of literature discussing how satisfaction in marriage is affected by chronic illness. T...

Happiness Struggle and Conflicts in 'Shiloh' by Bobbi Ann Mason

In a paper consisting of four pages character conflicts as they exist in this short story are considered and through an examinatio...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

Still Elusive Concepts of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

In five pages this paper argues that the concepts articulated by Thomas Jefferson still remain elusive for too many Americans. Fo...

Job Satisfaction/Happiness in Counseling

she was younger, she might have chosen a different career, but, today, she is glad that she did not because she experiences a high...

Happiness and Individuality According to Socrates and Huxley

wish, they have other freedoms that are perhaps not as obvious. Brave New World supports the hedonistic view. That is, Huxley (199...

Bernard & Krieger/Knowledge & Power

removed, "the phenomena will no longer appear" (Bernard 55). As this illustrates, Bernards goal in his research was integrate the ...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

Comparing Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

virtue and happiness. However, some may dispute the presumption that the desire to reflect another is at the root of ones disloya...

Oppressed Peoples and the Sympathetic Words of Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...