In impetuous times, how do we know and grasp happiness?

Refers to a person's needs

Satisfy and produce lasting happiness,

And hope to keep the status quo,

Happiness is not equal to happiness, pleasure and convenience.

Happiness can be divided into four dimensions: satisfaction, happiness, devotion and meaning. Happiness in every dimension is good, but it is more beneficial to turn shallow happiness into far-reaching satisfaction and lasting happiness.

When it comes to the conditions of happiness, it must include the satisfaction of desire. China society has been an ethical society since ancient times, so only a few philosophers have talked about it. For example, Xunzi advocated giving others the desire to support others. Dai Zhen said: I want to achieve love. Most philosophers talk about happiness, especially Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties and Confucian Classics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the face of their lofty ideals and social responsibilities, they generally abandon too many desires and pursue higher life values in order to conform to heaven and free ordinary people.

"Shangshu" said: God bless, good and evil. In China's early literature and classics, happiness and kindness are linked. Confucius said: A gentleman worries about Tao but is not poor, and a gentleman seeks Tao but not food. Compared with the literati class, they should strive for the highest level of goodness, that is, Fu Tao, whose material satisfaction is negligible.

Happiness in China's Philosophy

In particular, Confucianism put forward the theory of Confucius and Yan. Rational happiness has a great influence on ordinary people in China, forming an important psychological orientation of folk happiness in China. In traditional culture, there is also the advocacy of desire restraint, which urges people to form the concept of contentment.

On the surface, the mainstream culture in China does not seem to advocate people's pursuit of realistic happiness and happiness, and no school has ever regarded the pursuit of realistic happiness as the goal and motivation of life. Objectively, the happiness achieved from the satisfaction of basic needs to the satisfaction of the highest spiritual needs has created Lotte know life's mentality and personality in China and formed a unique happiness experience in China.

Happiness is the highest good.

From Aristotle's time to today, both philosophers and people, whether metaphysical or secular, have seriously thought about happiness. Because happiness is the ultimate pursuit of human nature and one of the most important purposes of life, which is closely related to our spiritual flesh.

In the pursuit, feeling and cognition of happiness for thousands of years, human beings have summed up the essence and basic conditions of happiness, and have a universal and basic view of happiness, that is, happiness is the ultimate and highest good and the goal for which human beings strive. Aristotle does not object that wealth and physical enjoyment are the conditions to promote happiness, but he also emphasizes that a happy life is a beautiful life. Plato defined happiness as the harmony of the soul-the living state of a truly moral person.

Happiness is deeply influenced by culture.

Culture will affect or even dominate people's subjective experience of happiness, that is, affect or dominate people's subjective well-being.

Culture is an important force to construct the concept of happiness and shape the subjective experience of personal happiness, so culture sets different sources and conditions for people's happiness. Modern humanistic spirit is lacking, and too much money and material are used to measure happiness, even as the only standard to measure happiness. It is very sad that western philosophers say that we have become machines in the production chain.

Traditional culture provides various ideological foundations for happiness, helps people from all walks of life to realize their ideal personality within their power, appreciates rational joy beyond reality in serving the society, provides China people with a comprehensive and harmonious happiness path and vision, and helps China people to remain positive and optimistic about the future in different environments, which is also the spiritual motivation for China people to remain calm and optimistic for a long time.

This cultural thought has important practical significance, which provides a multi-meaning happiness paradigm for modern people, helps modern people to return to their nature, attaches importance to the essence of happiness in cultural genes, and understands happiness at multiple levels in the process of pursuing and realizing happiness. On the basis of satisfying the basic needs of human beings, individuals pursue their real, lasting and profound happiness through different paths.