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(Happiness in Philosophy, Well-Being, Different Meanings, Philosophy,…

- - - - hedonism
      - life satisfaction theory
      - emotional state theory
- - - - vs. specific momentary emotion
    - - tend to experience
        
        frequent positive emotions
        
        infrequent negative emotions
    - - not purely emotional
      - has cognitive component
        
        recall and evaluate positively
        
        conditions
        
        events
      - happy people report being satisfied with
        
        overall lives
        
        domains in their lives
      - different components of happiness
        
        do not always co-occur within
        
        same person
        
        It = possible that someone could experience
        
        great deal of negative emotions yet still acknowledge that
        
        conditions of his or her life are good ones
        
        someone who works with
        
        poor
        
        sick
        
        destitute
        
        may experience frequent negative emotions but may also feel satisfied with life because
        
        work = worthwhile
        
        people who spend lots of time engaging in hedonistic pleasures
        
        may experience frequent momentary positive emotions
        
        feel that life = empty
        
        meaningless
        
        Subjective well-being researchers are interested in
        
        various factors that influence
        
        se distinct components”
- - - - cannot be broken down into more fundamental emotions
        
        only positive emotion that = considered to be basic
      - may combine to form
        
        more complex emotions
- - - - life satisfaction¶
      - pleasure¶
      - positive emotional condition¶
      - life goes well
      - valuable of this mental state?
- - - - when good things happen in
        
        specific moment
        
        positive evaluation of one’s life
        
        accomplishments overall—that =
        
        subjective well-being
        
        Happiness can be distinguished both from negative emotions
        
        sadness
        
        fear
        
        anger)
        
        Distinct from positive emotions
        
        affection
        
        excitement
        
        interest)
        
        often co-occurs with
        
        specific facial expression:
        
        smile