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5 days ago · The Pursuit of Happyness. A struggling mother trying her best to maintain a sense of stability for her family amid challenging financial circumstances. The pressure of life's challenges eventually proves to be too much for her, leading to her departure in search of greener pastures.
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5 days ago · (reviewed by JD Jung) “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. But what did the “pursuit of Happiness” mean to the founding fathers? American legal scholar, Jeffrey Rosen uncovers what the "pursuit of Happiness" truly meant to them and others, offering a compelling exploration
1 day ago · According to the oxford english dictionary, “happiness” first appears in english around 1473, and its first meaning was “good fortune or good luck in life generally or in a particular affair, success, prosperity.” but three centuries earlier, the sufi Muslim polymath al-ghazali wrote a book called “the Alchemy of happiness,” in which he argued that ultimate happiness was achieved ...
4 days ago · Jefferson et-al were educated men, and in their day that meant ancient and modern philosophy. So when Jefferson included an innate right to “the pursuit of happiness”, he was almost certainly using Aristotle’s definition of the word. From the last post, remember that Aristotle views happiness as “a life lived in accordance with virtue.”
1 day ago · Some psychologists have suggested that happiness consists of three distinct elements: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life, as shown in Figure 14.25 (Seligman, 2002; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005). The pleasant life is realized through the attainment of day-to-day pleasures that add fun, joy, and excitement to our ...
4 days ago · Yeah: Happiness. Even now. Especially now. I have been thinking this week about the games of Risk my family played when my kids were young, and of how one child would quickly secure Australia and then hang out in the lower corner of the board, quietly amassing resources while the rest of us squandered ours in battle with each other for larger swaths of territory.
5 days ago · At its core, the Founders viewed the pursuit of happiness as a lifelong quest for character improvement, where we use our powers of reason to moderate our unproductive emotions so that we can be our best selves and serve others.
