While reading Pojman about happiness, what sparked my interest was the comparing of objectivism and subjectivism. The objectivist view was that the goal is a "contemporary bias in favor of valur pluralism...the view that theres many ways of finding happiness. 'Let a thousand flowers bloom.'" leading to subjectivism in which "happiness is in the eye of the beholder; you are just as happy as you think you are." So what i took from that is (and i think we touched briefly on it in class today) what if people were living with false happiness? They could believe they were currently happy with their lives but internally be unhappy. And how would we know if it is true happiness or not if we are trying to seek happiness? Take Aristotle's answer of "you'll know when you see it"? I do believe that you can make yourself be happy with a positive attitude and believe that you can be successful and then you will be happy but the feeling might not last for long. Then the question that came to my mind was can there be an opposite of false happiness? Can someone believe they are unhappy when really they are? Some poeple think they have it rough when others have it ten times worse but are they happy?
so thats my question.
Can someone believe they are unhappy when really they are?
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