Some studies have suggested that there are “healthy” and “unhealthy” kinds of happiness, meaning that there are biological, and not only psychological, benefits from different kinds of happiness. A pleasure-seeking, fun-filled life can be enjoyable, but is it the best kind of life? Many people would say that what’s important to living well is having …
What Does a Good Life Look Like?
Happiness seems to be an unequivocal good. But, what is happiness? Happiness seems to involve pleasure, and the absence of pain, but are there other components of happiness? While a happy life would be a good life, is that the same as a morally good life? Imagine someone who was secretly stealing from others and …
We would probably all agree that pleasure is experienced as good and pain is experienced as bad. And everyone would probably agree that arbitrarily inflicting pain on someone or some group of people is wrong. Thus, a pain-filled life is not the kind of life that anyone would choose to live or think of as …