The Importance Of Happiness

All human beings have a common desire. The desire that all humans are striving for is something that is important and vital to every human being. This desire is happiness, which according to Aristotle, “is not something you can feel or experience at a particular moment. It is the quality of a whole life.” Many great philosophers, like Aristotle, have attempted to seek and comprehend what happiness is. Plato believe happiness is a “harmony within the soul-the spiritual well-being of the truly virtuous man.” Immanuel Kant defines “the pursuit of happiness as selfish, setting personal satisfaction above the objective norm of duty and right.” Aristotle believes “Everyone uses the word happiness to name that which he seeks for its own sake and not for the sake of anything else. One wants to be happy because happiness is the ultimate good.” Happiness is a desire all humans want, no one wants to live a dreadful life. Everyone wants to live a good life. Happiness is the total satisfaction of all human desire. In Mortimer Adler’s point of view, there are many components that can lead to happiness. Three important components to attain happiness are bodily, social, and intellectual goods.

Bodily goods are essential to all human beings because it helps us stay alive. Without bodily goods there will be no human existence. Bodily goods are human needs such as nutrition, water, sleep, shelter, and health, which helps humans obtain happiness. Without these fundamental needs, no human being can survive. When it comes down to these human needs, everyone needs them. It is essential to every person. Each human body runs on these fuels. In Mortimer Adler’s view he says, “Consider our basic biological needs – our natural need for food, for d...

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...something that is desired by every human being. Everyone approaches happiness in a different way, but at the end, happiness is all we want. Three important components of happiness are bodily, social, and intellectual goods. There would be no such thing as human life if bodily goods were not part of everyone’s life. No one can survive without bodily goods. Social relationships and environmental life have a fundamental role in human life. Happiness is acquired through wisdom, knowledge, and truth. Each of these goods have an important role that achieve human needs. Every human being attempts to achieve as much as possible to obtain as much happiness. There are many types of goods that can bring happiness to an individual. Happiness is not something that is achieved in a day or a moment, but something that is accomplished at the end of a lifetime.