Impact of Human Happiness on Subjective Well-Being
Journal Title: Review Journal of Political Philosophy - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
Subjective well-being (SWB) “is a broad category of phenomena that includes people’s emotional responses, domain satisfactions, and global judgments of life satisfaction”. Habituation theory suggests that human happiness oscillates around a ‘set-point’, thought to have a genetic basis. Income increase will have the weakest effect on an individual who is: relatively rich; living in an affluent country with a growing economy; has high aspirations and wants even more money; and spends their money on material goods for themselves. Humanity has been thinking about happiness for a long time, and in several different ways. The Buddha and Aristotle were among the early happiness philosophers. The Buddha’s thinking on achieving happiness (which he thought about in terms of escaping suffering) is summarized in the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. He believed that people look for sensual pleasures, possessions, and attachments. The impermanency of such goals, he argued, inevitably led to unhappiness, from the disappointment of loss and envy of others. Aristotle had a different viewpoint, and argued that man is a social animal, with individual happiness secured only within a political community, or polis. The polis should organize itself to promote virtuous behavior. As in Buddhist teaching, virtue is conducive not only to individual well-being but also to social harmony. So while happiness is a basic aspiration of humankind, it is also a word – or an idea – that is used in different ways.
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Mani Joshi
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