Happiness : Deconstruction 11/23/12

First I apply what I have learned from thinking of a previous question. Happiness, is term denotation or a whole. Happiness is a state of being, that most come from properties as they exist in relation to being human. Happiness is thence a first property, that may have second and third properties. Herein, I have listed this "properties".

Primary: Happiness
Secondary: Fulfillment of needs, money, health, friends, higher desires.
Tertiary: Amount, frequencies, quality.

Secondary Deconstruction:

Having by virtue of income, need, and want, brings happiness.(1)  pleasure in action (work, education)  (2).

1. Needs and wants are satisfied through many outlets or inputs. Food, drink, relations, entertainment, shelter, clothes, transportation, education, occupation, business, etc. are all forms of needs and possible wants. The things which become an end of needs, can be thought of as second properties of happiness. Third properties would be amount of those ends, as in having a certain amount of food or number of relations. Health can be considered a need.

2. Pleasure in action - this means not only the need of education and occupation or the needs of relationship activities, but rather having those activities and find pleasure in them.

Examples:

1. Resources/education/occupation: People become so unhappy when they don't have what they need, that they either revolt, work harder, or perish. Social:  People become so unhappy when with negative relations, they can disconnect the ties, become depressed, or contemplate suicide.  Health: People are less happy the sicker they are.

2. People that are unhappy with work or education, quit, or they can't stand work, end up living on very low access to resources.


These results are not always true in all circumstances.


Below I have created a mock-up of a possible graph and variables that can be used to graph and quantify the existence of the prominence of the properties of happiness or dissatisfaction.

With this graph we can determine where we are when it comes to what we have and the state of mind we exist in as a consequence of having those things. The x is plotted as having a value as judged by the individual and that is added to its excess or deficiency.

Once the plotting or grading if complete, for any variable, one can think of how they might increase the first or second properties of the primary being.

As examples :

Secondary property -

Relations : Happiness within in the relationship depends on the feelings that are created by the people in the relationships. Doing things that are of mutual intention or desire, can bring about a greater positivity of the relation.

Food : One can try to buy food that has a greater beneficial or happiness quotient, as in the properties of the food and how they effect the living being and there sense of pleasure or health that come from that food (2ndry).

A1 Moving towards greater value of these properties can be called, "increasing positivity of secondary properties," or "positive emotional intentions for secondary properties" (peisp).

B1 Moving towards lesser valuable secondary properties can be called "decreasing positivity of secondary properties," or "negative emotional intentions for secondary properties (neisp)."

A person can judge their social life dependent on not having friends just as positive as one can rate it negative, thus this chart allows room for relative states, that is satisfaction with introversion or extroversion. However, more satisfaction, as a general principle can be said to come from relationships with other people where happiness is an end product.

Tertiary property -
Relations : One can try to increase the amount of positive relations they have or the frequency they spend in stimulating positivity from the relationship.

Food: One can increase the amount of foods they store.

These can be split into

A2 Moving towards greater excess can be called "increasing excess of x".

B2 Moving towards greater deficiency  can be called "decreasing excess of x".

These ideas of excess and deficiency correspond or are very similar to the regulations of essential nutrients in the body. This deconstruction works not only with the quality and health advantages of food and the metabolism process, but the process of judgment and actualizing conditions of life, i.e. happiness-dissatisfaction.

If you are looking to measure your happiness-dissatisfaction, I have made a video an another blog for doing so, as found above. It is actually missing the ratio of expenses to income, but it isn't essential as these properties have relation to attainment of material happiness.

This is not completely compatible with a blog on the non-existence of need and happiness, which I deemed to no more than forms of acceptance or rejection of specific things.  

This idea can be integrated with the Lövheim cube of emotion, as well as algorithms for desire-end functions. The second being an integration that might work with another theory I posted on accepting and avoiding ends, and the intensity of that judgment, reaction, or intention, as the only things which exist. Thinking like this, is to decrease the complexity of mental content, as emotional and biological (beneficial/detrimental) distinctions and judgments, reaction, or intentions, are more complex than in accepting or rejecting ends.

J.A.