Happiness
Happiness, pleasure or joy is the emotional state of being happy. The definition of happiness is one of the greatest philosophical quandaries. Proposed definitions include freedom from want and distress, consciousness of the good order of things, assurance of one's place in the universe or society, and so forth. Associated emotions include joy, exultation, delight, bliss, and love, and antonyms include suffering, sadness, grief, and anger.
Philosophies of happiness
- Utilitarianism commonly seeks the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- Epicureanism is the belief that the greatest good is to seek happiness for oneself
- Hedonism is any philosophical theory that gives pleasure a central role
Achieving happiness
Here are a number of ways that various people have used in order to pursue happiness.
- sexual intercourse and other sex. Also Tantra
- closure
- shopping
- money and business, prosperity[?]
- friends and friendships (also penpals)
- romantic relationships and romance
- love
- religion
- philosophy, Epicurus, Epicureanism
- spirituality
- science
- food
- books
- cinema
- dating
- flirting
- kissing
- pets and animals
- gifts
- greeting cards[?] and postcards
- family and parents
- expanding our knowledge, reading and learning new things
- lifestyle
- alternative lifestyles
- drinking, alcohol
- meditation and yoga
- hobbies
- decoration
- sleeping
See also
Happiness[?] is also a 1998 U.S. film written and directed by Todd Solondz[?].
twenty medical officers should have been employed.
Died in the Stockade from its organization, February 24, 186l to
Died in hospital.html">Hospital during same time ...............................6,225
Total deaths in Hospital and Stockade ...........................9,479
Scurvy, diarrhea, dysentery, and hospital gangrene were the prevailing
no well-marked cases either of typhus or typhoid fever. The absence of
supposition that the artificial atmosphere of the Stockade, crowded
was unfavorable to the existence and action.html">action of the malarial poison.
supposed to generate these diseases, appeared to be due to the fact that
at Belle Island, and in other parts of the Confederacy for months, and
to the same bad influences, and those who had not had these fevers before
their systems, from long exposure, were proof against their action.
The effects of scurvy.html">scurvy were manifested on every hand, and in all its
languid muscular motions, lowness of spirits, and fetid breath, to the
fungoid, bleeding gums, loose teeth, oedematous limbs, covered with livid
extremities, spontaneous hemorrhages from mucous canals, and large, ill-
I observed that in some of the cases of scurvy the parotid glands were
entirely the power to articulate. In several cases of dropsy.html">dropsy of the
affirmed that previously to the appearance of the dropsy they had
checked by a change of diet, from Indian corn-bread baked with the husk,
were frequently associated with swellings in various parts, and
contractions of the knee joints and ankles, and often with a brawny feel
apeneuroses, preventing the motion of the skin over the swollen parts.
.
On
wordlookup.net
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
It uses material from the wikipedia.
|
|