Saturday, December 11, 2010

Philosophy on Happiness

Fall 2010 Quarter is finally over.  I took my last final on Wednesday.  I don't think it went very well, but we'll have to see.  I'm nervous for my final grades.  haha

Anyway, I wanted to share something I learned in Philosophy class.  For the last 5 weeks of class, we discussed the existence of God, the Problem of Evil, and the act of submitting to accept everything that happens in your life and looking on the brighter side of things or why there is no reason we should be upset over anything horrible that happens in our life.  In other words, it's like a lesson on how to bring happiness into our lives.  I know it sounds good, but I have to say, some of these things are depressing.  haha.  BUT the last day of lecture ended with a happy note.

All the philosophers have a different definition of "happiness" and how to achieve it.  BUT the one thing that they all agree on is that:

FRIENDSHIP is good and helps to provide security and happiness.

Every historical philosopher find friendship the most important thing to live a happy life.
I can't say that I don't agree.  :)