QUIZBALL

• Utilitarianism

  • Can be a state of mind
  • Evaluation of one ’ s experiences in life
• Plato


  happiness with living a moral life, practicing virtues, fulfilling one ’ s duties and controlling one ’ s desires
• Aristotle


  happiness as the primary reason of human action, and one becomes happy through the practice of virtues and the accumulation of achievements.
• epicureans


  For the Epicureans, happiness means a life of peace free from fear and discomfort
• st. augustine and st. thomas aquinas


  St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas define happiness as a union with God
• Utilitarianism


  proposed the greatest happiness principle
• Contemporary philosophers


  approached happiness in terms of Whole Life Satisfaction.
• Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz


  satisfaction with one ’ s life as a whole
• Richard Brandt


  happiness as a total life pattern
• Wayne Sumner


  happiness in cognitive and emotional/affective sides
• OTHER CONCEPTS RELATED TO HAPPINESS

  • Utilitarianism
  • Contemporary philosophers
  • Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz
  • Richard Brandt
  • Wayne Sumner
• Happiness as a well-being has three elements:

  • CONTENTMENT
  • DIGNITY
  • WELFARE