HAPPINESS, AS A SENSE OF LIFE
HAPPINESS, AS A SENSE OF LIFE

Summary/Abstract: Humans strive for some kind of happiness in a world that is not conducive to it. As each human life is a collection of random thoughts, choices, experiences, memories, and their interpretations, a permanent state of vague happiness does not exist, since everything is temporary. The pursuit of happiness, or the pursuit of anything in life, does not lead to a permanent state or thing. One can only experience moments of contentment in life. Some measure of temporary sense of perceived happiness is achieved not by pursuing it but by recognizing meaningful moments that could be missed during the pursuit itself. In this paper I aim to show that happiness should not be understood in a restrictive manner as the actualization of one virtue, even if this virtue could be considered the most important among all other virtues. Happiness should not be equivalated in an exclusive manner with the activity of contemplation. The context in which the problem I approach here ranges within the domain of searching for the good of man which is nothing but happiness.

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