Happiness -- its true value and the right means of achieving it -- has been pondered by many people including Plato and Socrates, Stoics, church fathers and Aristotelians. Philosophers have had different arguments including that happiness is a matter of: faith, passion, reason, pleasure and/or contentment, mind and/or body. Some of them have also argued that happiness is a way of being or feeling.
Who is happy?
Who are the people who are happy? Does being happy depend on one's age, race or sex? Does wealth contribute to happiness? Does happiness come from a particular trait or job, friends, age or income-level? With a spiritual dimension? With an active faith or with close supportive relationships? (Myers, 56)
Happy people are usually those who feel that they are in control of their lives. Those with little or no control over their lives such as citizens of undemocratic countries, very poor people, nursing home patients and prisoners suffer from lower morale. They also have worse health than those who are happy. Happy people are also often optimistic people.
In recognition of the fact that the majority of the people are reasonably happy, researchers are now trying to find: Who is the happiest? Does happiness favour people with a particular race, gender or age? Does one have to have a particular job/income level or traits to be happy? (Myers, 58) If conditions of happiness is equally available to people of any race, gender income-level or age, then who is the happiest? Through the difficulties of life, some people's capacity to be happy is not diminished. In fact in was found that the people who were happiest in 1973 were still comparatively happy ten years later, despite changes in their family status, residence or work.
Happiness and the level realizable
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