According to Aristotle, happiness is something we value not as a means to some other end but for its own sake. It has intrinsic value rather than instrumental value.

The good life is one in which a person cultivates and exercises their rational faculties by engaging in scientific inquiry, p...

• Recent research shows that people who have children are not necessarily happier than people who don't have children.
• During the child-raising years, and especially when children have turned into teenagers, parents typically have lower levels of happiness and higher levels of stress.

• One basic way we use the word "good" is to express moral approval.
• When we say someone is living well or that they have lived a good life, we may simply mean that they are a good person.
• Socrates and Plato both gave absolute priority to being a virtuous person over all other ...

• A truly good life is one that is both enviable and admirable in all or most of the ways outlined above.
• Sometimes a person can appear to live a fine life and be able to check all the boxes-virtue, prosperity, friendship, respect, meaning, etc., yet eventually be revealed as something...