#EssayFrameworkSeries |🎯140+| Framework #16
📌Essay Topic: There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path" (CSE 2024)
#Essence of the topic: Dont postpone happiness by making it condional on material achievements. happiness is not what is realised when things settle. Happiness is when we don't sacrifice meaningful living even if we are pursuing material success. Now expand this beautifully: write your heart out.
1) Introduction: The best way here is to do a #comparative analysis of 2 persons, one from ultra urbam settings like NewYork(successful materially but deprived of happiness) and another from a rural village in India(materially not as adwanced but enjoys a Happy life). Alternatively, you can directly start with philosophical inquiry on happiness.
2) Philosophical inquiry on happiness: Ask questions related to happiness.
3) Happiness as destination to reach: Explore this dimension in detail. Addeess why people perceive happiness as a destination and address its consequences( Project this from Western lenses)
4) Happiness as an end in itself: Address this perspective: Show this as the original Indian way.
5) Why and how happiness is the path: begin with refinforcing the problems with the view of happiness as destination and point out the correct understanding of happiness through different arguments and philosophical perspectives(#VeryImp)
6) Address why people fail to realise happines is the path: Social comparisions, Hedpnistic adapataion, negative relationships/peer group, too much hardhips(deprivation), cut throat competition, survival/basic necessities of life
7) Counter perspectives: See below
8) what should be done(#ShowOriginality=Good impression) : integral humanity, if too much concentration at one pole-> too much hardships at the other> balance disturbed>competition begins; Conecpt of development> material prosperity to close togetherness(Care and cooperation to enjoy what we have, instead of chasing the illusion),
9) Relevance: Challenges.
10) Conclusion: Bring back the Indian version of happiness and address its relevance for future challenges.
11) Finisher: Apt finisher(frame your own words: make it a #habit bacause sometimes you may not find apt quote/poem or anything)
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Originality/what will make this essay worth reading and worth reqarding
1) Budhist perspective
2) Gandhian way
3) Stoicism
4) Epicurean way of looking at happiness
5) Gita's philosophy
6) Emvironmentalism: harmony for happiness, Small is beautiful
Counter perspectives for boosting score
1) Marxist interpretation of happiness: bring in alienation, capitalist system: endless profit motive,
2) Realist perpsective: without material advancement, happiness means nothing: Chanakya: Material wellbeing for subjects' welfare and governnace.
Remember and reiforce in conclusion: Ultimately happiness is the path is the function of being integral toward the core/long term, defining values of each and every person. Everyone is different because each one differs in thier heirarchy of values. If we are unable remain committed towarfs them in that heirarchy, happiness remains elusive(#originalityImpression=extra credit)
Note: You have to show that nothing which makes life meaningful should ve sacrificed for certain/uncertain future because when those things are absent, even most successful people feel empty.
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