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Glaucon's View On Happiness Essay

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Everyone has very different views on what happiness is consider so, what is happiness? Happiness is being around family and being able to enjoy life with them. Glaucon’s view on happiness is many people would agree happiness is. Each philosopher has very good viewpoints however; one philosopher's viewpoint is more convincing than the other viewpoints I read. Glaucon’s view is that happiness comes from materialistic things like money, Socrates view on happiness is your inner man or soul needs to be happy knowing you are doing the right things in life. Aristotle's view on happiness is to not just live well but flourish. In Ethical Egoism Glaucon ask us who we think is happier in his argument example the unjust man with the best the reputation or the just man with the worse reputation? I believe it would be the unjust guy. Glaucon states how he was confident we would choose the unjust man with the with the best reputation is happier because, he is surrounded by family, has a good financial security and has everything else that money can buy. Glaucon also proceeds to tell us the unjust man has respect from all of his peers (Class note, Module 02, Pg 1). What is there to not be happy about with financial security, family and money? …show more content…

Socrates view of happiness is learning right from wrong and having rules. Socrates says “The best situation would be to have the ability to practice injustice without fear of reprisal. The worst situation would be to practice justice while being impotent to retaliate in the face of injustice (Class notes, Module 2, Pg 1). This sounds like to me that Socrates happiness is considered having rules and another view of happiness is conventional

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