PART ONE - INTRODUCTION I think the concept of "happiness" requires some consideration. I note first that it is usually included among the concepts that we consider "obvious." We think that to know a priori what it means to be happy. And this is, as always, the main obstacle to understanding: do not bother us to assess more carefully to master something that we already have.
result rather vague idea that, from a partially taken uncritically as bearers of social stereotypes happiness of wealth, success, entertainment (or whatever ..), the other called for a subjectivity in which everyone is happy different things for personal reasons. This superficial view otherwise disables a very important concept.
parts instead of observation. Seem to exist at least two different types of "happiness": those where we are "happy" because anything goes as we should go, and where we have a feeling psychophysical grounds (included) or not to be.
That is: the moments in which we believe to be happy and where we are. The first artificial
are projections on our perception of reality (satisfaction - better term - for the conformity between the desired and obtained), the latter are actual perceptions of our physical and mental state in a moment of good "energy level".
mean by finding the energy level of vitality (energy in fact) or not present in us at any given time. This figure can be perceived as ourselves what is manifested by an outside observer, if high, as a feeling of well-being, feeling alive: happiness.
understand if we are not bound to look happy coincidence of our (pre) reviews and our experience, is to "measure" its vitality.
This measurement is related to a single moment, compared to an earlier time and / or later. It is a process in which vitality is produced, kept or consumed. Events that consume (eg full of euphoria) felt happy only in a perspective of analysis that does not perceive the entire process.
Starting from a parallel with the measurement of body temperature is easy to see account of those factors can distort a correct measurement - move, insert the thermometer in unsuitable places, or do not shake on the wrong side, exposing it to heat, rub, break ... - Like a correct perception of a given such an important distinction and requires many precautions.
The purpose here is not quibble about how to properly detect this information, but introducing the concept of happiness that define i, summarizing, c ome the finding that the level of vitality is high.
The importance of this data resides, in my view, in his instinctive use as magnetic north of our impulses. Let us instinctively happiness / vitality that, actually, is when well-recognized, the best empirical evidence of what works for us (instead of distorting than it clear that detection ...).
PART TWO - THESIS
Now, after this long but necessary introduction, I come to the body of this post: the relationship between individual and community happy happy, so taking the smallest communities possible, the couple, so the largest of the 'humanity.
The thesis is that individuals are happy to create a community (pair, group, society ...) happy.
is not obvious how this statement could seem much less commonly acquired.
Take for example the comfort of the couple - but taking in mind that, in theory, the same relationships apply in every community. We would have that: people happy, whether constituting a pair and give the happy couple. It means that the necessary condition for a couple (or any other community) can be happy is that the individuals who compose it are happy. From this point of sacrificing the individual for the good of a hypothetical couple is simply meaningless, as ineffective.
do not mean that there is no supra-callable entity pair (or companies), I understand that it is made up of individuals and "sacrificing" happiness in the name of a presumed benefit of pair is false and chimerical.
I try to represent the concept by borrowing elements of elementary mathematics. Let us all be analyzed (pair, group, society) and as the union of subsets rappresentiamolo individuals. Metaphorically as a library (community) made up of several levels (individuals). Each of these subsets / individuals / shelves "containing" happiness, in metaphor represented by a numerical value / book.
The whole happiness of the group - the amount of "books" - is the sum of the values \u200b\u200bin all the "shelves". A library exists as a concept than a shelf, but its a wealth of volumes can not be separated from the content of individual shelves ...
consequence of these considerations, the "cure" for a community (pair, group, company) unhappy lies in increasing the happiness of its members. Suppose you decrease it in the name of a higher "entity" is rather absurd because the "entity" has the happy result of the sum of individual happiness that produce less than they reduced if instead of the expected and feasible - by such means - the common good .
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