THE DEGREE OF HAPPINESS BY BETRAND RUSSELL

       I’m reviewing my comment on ‘The Degree of Happiness’ article by a famous philosopher, mathematician and Nobel laureate, Betrand Arthur William Russell or well known as Betrand Russell. Russell describes happiness by separating it into two which is open to human being and the other to those who can read and write. In my opinion, this passage means that the happiness is depends to one self. 

Human being has their own perception about happiness. Some of them think that, being an educated people is their happiness since education can change people’s life. Some of them think that by doing their favourite things brings happiness to them. Russell wrote a story about a man bursting happiness whose business was digging wells and hunting his mortal foe which is the rabbits that destroy his garden. Sometimes we can not understand what others think or the way they define happiness. The article stated about the way people’s think is different from each other depends on their lifestyle. It’s true that people always avoiding something different and bizarre to them, but if we put some effort to understand what they are trying to say, we might feels that they are from the same side. From my review, this article is trying to persuade us, to make us understand and respect each other point of view about happiness. To me, I would like to do something that I like because that is my happiness. People’s perception are different, don’t do something that will make you regret, just be yourself. So its easier to grab the happiness with you.   




            
       
          Quote:

'One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways'.Bertrand Russell - Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9

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