Well-being is most commonly used in philosophy to describe what is non-instrumentally or ultimately good for a person. The question of what well-being consists in is of independent interest, but it is of great importance in moral philosophy, especially in the case of utilitarianism, according to which well-being is to be maximized.
Your well-being is the atmosphere you create in your life, feeling comfortable, healthy and happy. Depending on how your react and act, you create the atmosphere happy or sad, to be the balance between good and bad things in a person's life. So remember, how you take it as is what is the most important for your well-being. No one else can change your life better that YOU, yourself!
‘Happiness’ is often used, in ordinary life, to refer to a short-lived state of a person, frequently a feeling of contentment: ‘You look happy today’; ‘I'm very happy for you’. Philosophically, it's scope is more often wider, encompassing a whole life. And in philosophy it is possible to speak of the happiness of a person's life, or of their happy life, even if that person was in fact usually pretty miserable. The point is that some good things in their life made it a happy one, even though they lacked contentment. But this usage is uncommon, and may cause confusion.
When discussing the notion of what makes life good for the individual living that life, it is preferable to use the term ‘well-being’ instead of ‘happiness’. For we want at least to allow conceptual space for the possibility that, for example, the life of a plant may be ‘good for’ that plant, not for you.
As for me, I have learnt to create my well-being on my own within the past few years, no matter what kind of situations I am going through, you will always see me as a happy woman. My worries are my duties which I have to deal with separately. What makes me happy is my well-being! That belief that I have can change the whole world to me. At the same time I am making an atmosphere for you too to be happy and to view things from my eyes while reading this post, and when you see the real change, without your negative notion, what you see is the positive change in your life and then you can bring it in to action. When your action changes as influenced by the notion of positive thinking, you have a positive reaction which creates your well-being. There you settle your mindset and start living accordingly.
Well-being is a kind of value, sometimes called ‘prudential value’, to be distinguished from, for example, aesthetic value or moral value. All these values you hold in you. Just need to set your mind for that and let other negative thinking out of your mind. Likewise, my giving money to a development charity may have moral value, that is, be morally good. And the effects of my donation may be good for others. But it remains an open question whether my being morally good is good for me; and, if it is, it's being good for me is still conceptually distinct from its being morally good.
Your well-being is the atmosphere you create in your life, feeling comfortable, healthy and happy. Depending on how your react and act, you create the atmosphere happy or sad, to be the balance between good and bad things in a person's life. So remember, how you take it as is what is the most important for your well-being. No one else can change your life better that YOU, yourself!
‘Happiness’ is often used, in ordinary life, to refer to a short-lived state of a person, frequently a feeling of contentment: ‘You look happy today’; ‘I'm very happy for you’. Philosophically, it's scope is more often wider, encompassing a whole life. And in philosophy it is possible to speak of the happiness of a person's life, or of their happy life, even if that person was in fact usually pretty miserable. The point is that some good things in their life made it a happy one, even though they lacked contentment. But this usage is uncommon, and may cause confusion.
When discussing the notion of what makes life good for the individual living that life, it is preferable to use the term ‘well-being’ instead of ‘happiness’. For we want at least to allow conceptual space for the possibility that, for example, the life of a plant may be ‘good for’ that plant, not for you.
As for me, I have learnt to create my well-being on my own within the past few years, no matter what kind of situations I am going through, you will always see me as a happy woman. My worries are my duties which I have to deal with separately. What makes me happy is my well-being! That belief that I have can change the whole world to me. At the same time I am making an atmosphere for you too to be happy and to view things from my eyes while reading this post, and when you see the real change, without your negative notion, what you see is the positive change in your life and then you can bring it in to action. When your action changes as influenced by the notion of positive thinking, you have a positive reaction which creates your well-being. There you settle your mindset and start living accordingly.
Well-being is a kind of value, sometimes called ‘prudential value’, to be distinguished from, for example, aesthetic value or moral value. All these values you hold in you. Just need to set your mind for that and let other negative thinking out of your mind. Likewise, my giving money to a development charity may have moral value, that is, be morally good. And the effects of my donation may be good for others. But it remains an open question whether my being morally good is good for me; and, if it is, it's being good for me is still conceptually distinct from its being morally good.
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