Thought Of Happiness

What is happiness? Opinions of ideologists from ancient to nowadays, spanning over China and foreign countries, vary in different aspects and it is unable to decide which is right. People from different times, different races, different cultural backgrounds and different life circumstances, etc., have different understanding and feelings to happiness, thus it creates a different outlook on life, different world view and different values. These ideas and feelings affect people's observation and experience to life. Under today's market economy, materialism, money worship, hedonism, egoism and other ideas have alienated people's attitude to pursue happiness, and money is seen as a recognized standard for measuring the value of happiness. Thus, people's understanding deviations to happiness, alienated concept of happiness may unfortunately lead people to crossroad, and encounter sufferings. Therefore, we need stand on a philosophical perspective, reflect and filter what happiness is and how to achieve happiness from theoretically and practically.This thesis firstly compares and analyzes the understanding and explanation of philosophers and moralists' from both China and abroad to happiness, then summarize the theory genre and ideas. In the West, standpoints of happiness mainly have these genres: rationalism happiness, emotional, happiness, utilitarianism happiness and Christian happiness;In ancient China, there are three mature ideas of happiness, which is invoking happiness by morality, morality and happiness contradiction and taking morality as happiness. And it outlines the contribution of authors of the Marxist classics on the "concept of happiness" theory. Then the basic meaning of "happiness" is defined under the guide of Marxist ideology, along the road of ancient masters' theoretical footprint. It is considered that happiness is a psychological life experience once human's major need, desire, purpose are satisfied, is a unification of subject and object. Then actual happiness is analyzed vertically and horizontally, five characteristics are draught, which is happiness is transcendent, singular, diverse, individual and social. To further the understanding of the basic connotation of happiness, categories relating to happiness are differentiated and analyzed, including happiness and enjoyment, happiness and wealth, happiness and health, happiness and misfortune, which could enhance the depth and breadth of understanding to happiness. How can we achieve happiness and avoid suffering and misfortune? How to secure happiness or to get happiness nearer and nearer? By considering the analysis to happiness above, basic principles of striving for happiness are proposed, namely, knowledge is the precondition to realize happiness, morality is the ladder to promote happiness, creation is the way to advance happiness, enjoying is the righteousness of gaining happiness, dedication is the ultimate pursue of purchasing happiness.