What is happiness for you?

What is happiness for you?

Discipline:
– Theology

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Essay

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2. What is happiness for you? Do you find yourself being influenced, even manipulated by other people’s happiness (peer pressure) or happiness’ portrayal in the media? (This question, admittedly, is a broader philosophical one, but also incorporates pop culture.)

   3. What kind of happiness does the Christian life offer? In other words, if a person commits themselves to being a Christian, what happiness can they expect? How do they “get it?” (I look forward to your answers for this question as you recognize GenXers and beyond do not have the high regard, respect yes, but commitment no that previous generations have had.) In other words, does a relationship with a God have any impact on happiness? Can it?

   4. Do you believe that many people indeed are in search of happiness? What determines a person’s happiness? What if one person’s happiness clashes with that of another?

   5. How is “happiness and goodness yoked together,” as Wadell reports it?

   6. What does it mean to say that “happiness is a seemingly ongoing life task?”

   7. Name and explain the two (2) key ways in which Saints Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas might challenge our understanding of happiness?

   8. Compare and contrast Saints Augustine of Hippo’s understanding of happiness with that of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

   9. Both Saints Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, as all Christians do, find their happiness in their relationship with God. Other monotheistic religious traditions, namely Judaism and Islam, do likewise. Do you believe that there is, as they say in the corporate world, a “value add” that a religious person brings to life? To the health care world? Or, does religion get in the way, obstruct, and enslave people? Give your sense and provide scholarship to substantiate any claim(s) you make. (This, you recognize, is a critical question, for it demands from you to make connection between medicine and morality – the main focus of our course.)