He goes on by saying the purpose is to seek a happy life, happy family, happy community and ultimately a happy world which leads to an individual happiness. Happiness lies on our emotions and the emotion we show to others, the act of kindness, compassion and empathy can go a long way to make us understand life and happiness. Dali lama idea of happiness relates most with Aristotle. As according to Aristotle, Happiness is a state of well being (Eudaimonia).To lead a virtuous, morally acceptable life whereas living an ethical life, of morals, virtues and right actions, is far more important in terms of achieving happiness in your life. In my opinion, Aristotle had a far closer definition of happiness than Mill or Bentham. As Mill focused on pleasure was all there was to happiness and if we recieved plessure and eliminated pain we will be happy whereas Aristotle claimed happiness was a lifelong journey, which is determined by our actions and by how we treat others and ourselves. By doing so we not only make an individual progress but by being compassionate and by respecting others, we …show more content…
To talk about some of the ideology that overlaps with Kant are the perspective of our moral groundings, that Dan Lowe talks about when he says that “the decision that is based on our character, our moral framework; the decision we make in our community it doesn’t come out from the one standpoint of what is the most favorable but the one in which we make sure will do no harm and is in favor of all”. This is one of the viewpoints of Daniel Lowe that is very similar to kant since the whole Deontology theory Kant emphasizes on the absolute value and dignity of individuals and stresses the importance of acting on the basis of right intentions.The perspective that seems to be disjointed between Kant and Dan Lowe is the vision about “The rule of the law”, because Dan says that Businesses and decision makers who spend thousand and thousands of dollar buying shares need to feel comfortable that there is a rule of the law and perfect governments. But sometimes you see situation where creditors, “A bunch of vultures”, they do not deserve to get their money back, so changing the rule for those people is not the solution and breaks rule of the law. If you have people that feel confident in the system and if the rule is changed based on emotion of one person or for that one person because of whatever reason it might be, the entire system falls apart. The entire system