Definition of Happiness

from Reasons for “Correctness” Definition of Happiness

• A classic example can be found in J. S. Mill’s “Utilitarianism.

• Happiness means the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain. Unhappiness means the presence of pain and the absence of comfort.

• Mill thinks there’s the right to execute a fool in the first place, so he’d have to allow someone who “wants to use euphoric drugs and live happily ever after” to use them, even if a third party thinks it’s folly to do so.

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