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Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or [[joy]]. A variety of [[Philosophy philosophical]], [[Religion religious]], [[Psychology psychological]] and [[Biology biological]] approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
Happiness is an [[emotion]] associated with feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to [[bliss]] and intense [[joy]]. A variety of [[Philosophy philosophical]], [[Religion religious]], [[Psychology psychological]] and [[Biology biological]] approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources. In the eight years since that change, there are really only four significant changes made to the definition.
A variety of [[ Biology biological]], [[Psychology psychological]], [[Religion religious]], and [[Philosophy philosoph ical]] approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
Happiness is a positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of [[Biology biological]], [[Psychology psychological]], [[Religion religious]], and [[Philosophy philosophical]] approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. After another year, references to psychological and scientific means of understanding happiness are added. Happiness is a mental or emotional state of [[well-being]] characterized by positive or [[pleasant]] emotions ranging from [[contentment]] to intense joy.
Finally, references to happiness as well-being and the field of happiness economics were added last year. Happiness is a mental or emotional state of [[well-being]] defined by positive or [[pleasant]] emotions ranging from [[contentment]] to intense joy. And that is the definition as it stands today. The page continues to be dynamic, but the introduction has not changed in nearly a year.
Socrates would probably have approved of that, as he only ever argued with fellow aristocrats, and in The Republic , Plato warns against the dangers of giving the masses too much power. There is no abstract definition that can perfectly capture what happiness is to all people, all the time. It contains both vigilant efforts to succinctly characterize the concept in the face of vandalism, but also people telling us why they are happy, what would make them happy, and even that they think happiness is a useless concept.
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