Does Beauty Bring Happiness?

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Plato emphasizes that "human being naturally desires the happiness"(Pg.34). People live for achieving happiness and in every part of their lives they chase happiness. There are many things to make a person happy and humans try to add them in their life frequently. Also beauty can be a significant factor while being happy and it is a complicated subject that has been questioned since the beginning of human being. Many intelligent thinkers try to explain it and assert the importance of beauty in a person's life. According to Heisenberg "beauty is the source of illumination and clarity"(Pg.13). Plato highlights the importance of human beauty while achieving happiness(Pg.23). However, Socrates claims that a good personality is better than any type of beauty and only "the soul of beauty" can make a person happy(Pg.212). There are varied demonstrations about beauty and they can be extended. Yet actually beauty has an essential role while pursuing happiness. Although some believe that it is only “the soul of beauty” that can exactly make people happy rather than apparent, research studies indicate that this is not certainly true because apparently beauty can provide social and psychological privilege and give a chance to find true mate to people, which is directly connected with happiness.
Although some of the people may be concerned that being beautiful does not always create a chance to be satisfied since success is a reflection of beauty and community seem that attractive people are mostly accomplished but some beautiful people are not as powerful as to carry it and allure can be hazardous for them because it causes stress on them(Derner, 1175), it is not always true because beautiful people can easily impress community in order to ...

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