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Happiness Ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - controllable
        
        judgement
        
        impulse
        
        desires
        
        intentions
      - uncontrollable
        
        everything else
        
        others opinions
        
        your body
        
        reputation
        
        material possessions
- - - - Happiness
      - Other States
        
        Excitement
        
        liking
        
        ....
    - - friendship
      - success
      - health
      - ....
- - - - depending on the reference point
    - - = freedom from worry & inner tranquility
    - - by philosophical contemplation
        
        with yourself & others
      - being content with simple things
      - Questions to ask:
        
        Which pleasures are really pleasurable?
        
        which pains do we need to experience pleasure?
    - - leading to wisdom over oneself (greatest pleasure)
- - - - happiness = end of an action
      - "human good turns out to be activity of soul in conformity with virtue"
      - For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.“
        
        Happiness is nothing to be reached but to worked on reaching ( telos of every human = Eudiamonia)