Paper Topic:

Happiness

Money Can Buy Happiness

F . Heylighen (1999 ) People are happy when they are "in control , that is , when they feel competent to satisfy their needs and reach their goals

These are the words of F . Heylighen a research professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB , and director of the transdisciplinary research group on "Evolution , Complexity and Cognition . The core context of happiness is achievable and people should have the means to achieve it

Merriam Webster defines happiness as a state of well-being and contentment . It is a pleasurable or

satisfying experience

It is what you feel when Happiness is what you feel when you 're not feeling self doubt , depressed , hateful , fearful , worried , unsatisfied bored , grief , shame , guilt , discontent , anxious , annoyed , angry irritated , stressed , frustrated , upset , down , sad , envious , or jealous (http /www .selfcreation .com /happiness /what_is_happiness .htm

There may be a lot of words to define happiness yet one may get lost in its definition and until then , one may still not have an absolute definition of what happiness is . Perhaps , no one is an expert and a fixed authority to define a conclusive meaning of the word . Some people have a conditional definition of the word . One would say that they will be happy if good fortune comes to them , or if they will be able to afford even a meager three meals a day as such a situation in impoverished countries , yet some wealthy people who do not have financial worries take the hedonist stance and would say they just eat drink and be merry . This is a common connotation among single young urban professionals who frequent night clubs and travel out-of-town every weekend and splurge their money without the worry of saving or feeding a family back home . Happiness ' prime human behavior motivation is the attainment of pleasure and the avoidance of pain . Perhaps the avoidance of pain is of generic value . However , the attainment of pleasure would be a subjective and even a debatable issue because one may not need to experience pleasure and be really satisfied according to an empiricist or a moralist . The purpose of this research is to further decipher the statement that indeed money can buy one 's happiness and that people need the money to be able to experience their individual definition in their mind

There are a lot sources online as to negate the thesis statement of this research . Perhaps , the challenge then is to prove otherwise and to criticize the arguments presented by these researches through a basic theory of motivation and needs , the Abraham Maslow 's Heirarchy of Needs and the Evolutionary-Cybernetic Theory of Happiness

According to Allan Chapman (2006 ) defines Abraham Maslow 's hierarchy of needs as

Each of us is motivated by needs . Our most basic needs are inborn having evolved over tens of thousands of years . Abraham Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs helps to explain how these needs motivate us all Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs states that we must satisfy each need...

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