Happiness, notions, philosophical spectrum

1. Mapping notions using the
philosophical spectrum

2. Happiness is a result of
living life aligned with
the unchanging human
nature.
Health equals
happiness. Healthy
life style supports
happiness.
Different cultures
have many notions
of happiness.
Happiness is result of
transcending the
particularities of your
life. Detachment.

3. It is an outcome of sin
and/or ignorance.
Depression is a
health problem. It
has biological roots.
Depression has its roots
in the society: inequality
and competition root
causes.
Depression is caused by
attachment. Hoping that
things are other than they
are causes suffering.

4. • Cyranaics (Aristippos)
• Epicuros, Stoicism
• Charles Darwin
• Natural science
• Many psychologists: Freud, Skinner,
Lorenz…
• Early Wittgenstein, Dewey, Nagel,
Sellars, Quine
• Buddha
• Pyrrho, Heraclitus
• Nietzsche
• Kierkegaard
• Sartre
• Heidegger
• The sofists (Protagoras)
• Hegel, Marx
• Most anthropologists: Frans Boaz, C. Levi-
Strauss
• Most postmodernists (Derrida, Lyotard)
• Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Heidegger to a
degree)
• Many nationalists: Alasdair McIntyre
• Sociology, social constructivism particularly
• Plato
• Descartes
• Kant
• Fundamenalist
interpretations of religions