Happiness As an object of philosophical inquiry, the concept of happiness is as old as philosophy itself. It was central to the ethical thought of the Greeks, most famously Aristotle, and was restored to this position of prominence by the...
Happiness in Islam refers to both this world and the hereafter. Happiness in the hereafter is the ultimate goal of the believer, motivating him to strive for true happiness in this world. We will first examine the literal meaning of happiness in the...
A merchant’s happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves. (Japanese) All happiness is in the mind. (English) Calamities come because of accumulated evil; happiness comes as a blessing to the good. (Chinese) Happiness has many friends. (Roman)...
In Ed McBain’s short story A Very Merry Christmas a man who is feeling especially cheerful and optimistic offers to buy a stranger in a bar a drink. The man to whom the offer is made is highly suspicious, and thinks that a homosexual approach is...
(In P.Sukha, the opposite of Dukkha, q.v.). To the Bst. happiness is a by-product of right living, and never an end in itself. The sense of happiness and unhappiness are both transcended in the course of mind-development (Bhāvanā, q.v.)....
Joy, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century) Happiness is an emotion in which one experiences feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense joy. This definition is, however, a synoymous one. A more clarified one is...
