In order to help a student discuss and decide what Happiness really is, and whether it is possible for singles to be happy in their season, and one to find true happiness wherever you are in life, I drew up a few sources on JSTOR.
Terms that immediately popped up were Hedonism and Eudaemonism. Only vaguely do I know that Hedonism is the current excessive enjoyment of all the senses may offer. But Eudaemonism?
I did not have to look far for the drop-down menu with the define-button:
eu·daemon·ism
NOUN
- a system of ethics that bases moral value on the likelihood of actions producing happiness
Various philosophers have debated the nature, process of finding, and conditions for happiness, experimenting and observing society to secrete the elixir of essence that makes it so desirable and sought-after.
One source has it that a life needs meaning in order to be happy. And that previous studies had neglected this facet in the research process.
Another researcher defined sustainable happiness as, “happiness that contributes to individual, community and/or global well-being without exploiting other people, the environment or future generations” (O’Brien, 2010a, n.p.).
Upon scanning yet another article’s first paragraph, I stumbled upon the https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/ World Database of Happiness. That this actually exists may be a testimony to the pervasive nature of the whole problem of being happy, and the pursuit of happiness, whatever and wherever it may be found…
Source List
Sturt, H. (1903). Happiness. International Journal of Ethics, 13(2), 207–221. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2376452
Annas, J. (2004). Happiness as Achievement. Daedalus, 133(2), 44–51. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027912
O’Brien, C. (2013). Happiness and Sustainability Together at Last! Sustainable Happiness. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne de l’éducation, 36(4), 228–256. http://www.jstor.org/stable/canajeducrevucan.36.4.228
Kauppinen, A. (2013). Meaning and Happiness. Philosophical Topics, 41(1), 161–185. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43932753
Kesebir, P., & Diener, E. (2008). In Pursuit of Happiness: Empirical Answers to Philosophical Questions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(2), 117–125. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40212237
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