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3 elements of happiness:
Contentment – refers to the level of
satisfaction
Welfare – satisfaction of one’s wants or
needs
Dignity – the ability to make free choices
regarding one’s self.
- For Socrates, FOR A PERSON TO BE HAPPY, HE
HAS TO LIVE A VIRTOUS IFE
- Socrates major ethical claims on happiness:
Happiness is impossible without moral
virtue.
Unethical actions can harm the person who
performs them more than the people than
victimize.
B. PLATO
- Contemplation in the mind of Plato means that
the mind is in communion of the universal and
internal ideas. Contemplation is very important in
the life of humanity because this is the only
available means foe a mortal being to free himself
from his space – time confinement to ascend to
heaven of ideas and there commune with the
immortal, eternal, the infinite, and the divine
truths – this contemplation is doing good in life.
- PLATOS THEORY of IMMORTALITY
Aristotle divided everything in the natural
world into 2 categories:
1. Non-living things – no potentiality to
change. They change only by some external
influence.
2. Living Things – has potential to change.
According to Aristotle, the most pleasant
act for any living creature is realizing its
nature, therefore, the happiest life for
human is thinking about the unmoved
mover – consist of pure thought.