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Running head: DISCUSSION ABOUT HAPPINESS
Discussion about Happiness
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Discussion about Happiness
Chapter 1: In ch.1 of Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile, Daniel Nettle looks at the
different ways that happiness, as a concept, is understood. What did you find enlightening?
Did anything in this chapter surprise you? Did anything challenge your own thinking about
the concept of happiness?
I found the three levels of happiness as enlightening because I am only aware of the first
one, which the Nettle (2006) described as the momentary feelings that is characterized by joy
and pleasures. It is the reason why the other two levels of happiness are surprising concepts to
me despite their role in the determination of a person’s level of happiness. Also, I found it
surprising that eudaimonia is different from happiness since it represents the state of well-being
that an individual enjoys as he or she attains his or her true potentials. The need for people not
define happiness as an ideological or moral concept but the outcome of the personal evaluation
of the subject who experiences it is another a...