When we think of happiness often times we think about what it takes to actually be happy. The thought of doing all the things that make you happy on one hand should satisfy and bring you happiness, but on the other some philosophers such as Daniel Haybron believe that happiness stems from a state of mind. More specifically Haybron believes that happiness is an emotional state of mind, and what that theory entails is to be happy one’s emotional condition to exhibit a sufficiently a favorable benefit of positive versus negative. The other side to that theory is for one to be unhappy is for ones emotional condition to exhibit a sufficiently unfavorable balance of positive versus negative. (haybron lecture notes) This theory is developed in
