What is the difference between China's Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and economics in how to improve people's happiness?

China's traditional philosophy pays attention to the foundation and theoretical problems of happiness from the perspective of life understanding. Formally, in the mainstream of culture, China's philosophy combines the exposition of happiness with his master, heaven and man, emphasizing harmony; Master Tao, value life; The Lord seeks goodness and rebuilds himself; The combination of subjectivity and introspection has formed its own unique concept and category, formed its own national way of thinking, and formed its own view of happiness with distinctive national characteristics, with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as its core. Confucian and Socrates' views on happiness are very similar, both of which link happiness with virtue. The basic point of Confucianism is the unity of knowledge and action. As the saying goes, "Learning while having fun", learning and learning are the same, and we have to go hand in hand to reach a state of virtue, which leads to happiness. The spirit of Confucian concept of happiness is profound and profound, which can be summarized in one sentence: the way of being sage inside and king outside. People think that happiness lies in doing good, that is, acting for the overall interests of society. At the same time, it emphasizes the ascetic spirit of "eating and drinking" for the purpose of improving virtue, and pays attention to the perfection of personal virtue and the immortal happiness thought of "being sage inside and king outside" in life.

Taoist view of happiness, in a word, says: natural inaction, return to simplicity. Laozi advocates to avoid troubles, to do things without dispute, and to do nothing first. People are happiest when they maintain their natural nature and develop fully and freely. In short, Taoism believes that the natural state of all things is the best state, and the greatest happiness can be achieved by letting nature take its course.

Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in traditional culture give contemporary people the ultimate caring view of happiness from different levels: Confucianism requires people to actively "stand at attention, build a career" and realize the three immortals in life; Taoism requires people to treat everything equally and frankly, not be bound by fame and fortune, return to the real world and the state of freedom, and reach the realm of "carefree travel" with everything in the world; Buddhism, on the other hand, has established a quiet world for people, which can completely free people from the dispute over material desires and realize the transcendence of life.

Happiness is related to the improvement of material conditions, but the improvement of material conditions does not necessarily bring happiness. Happiness can't be achieved by vertical comparison. Happiness is more about the psychological feelings after horizontal comparison with neighbors. In an open society, for ordinary people, the effect of "recalling bitter experience and thinking sweet" is ineffective, nor can we tell people that "two-thirds of the suffering people in the world don't have enough to eat and don't have warm clothes" to enhance their happiness, as in the closed-door era of North Korea and China today.

There is no doubt that material things are the foundation of happiness. Just like the famous Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, people's most basic needs are "physiological needs such as food and clothing", and the satisfaction of this demand must rely on material wealth. But obviously, happiness is not only measured by money. The famous "easterlin paradox" explained this phenomenon, that is, usually within a country, the average happiness and happiness level reported by the rich are higher than those reported by the poor, but if compared across countries, the happiness level of citizens in poor countries is not so different from that of rich countries, and that of Cubans and Americans is very close.

Happiness is a utility and a subjective evaluation. Economic development can enhance people's happiness.

Feeling comes from adequate food, clean water, convenient transportation and communication, colorful life and leisure.

Enjoy and so on. In a word, development makes people feel happier than no development.

Happiness is a utility and a subjective evaluation. Happiness is an individual's positive psychological experience of his own existence and development, and it is an organic unity of satisfaction, happiness and value. Economic development can enhance people's happiness, which comes from adequate food, clean water, convenient transportation and communication, colorful life, enjoying leisure and so on.