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According to mark kingwell about in pursuit of Happiness that ” the trouble with most people is not that day are unhappy” philosophy professor Mark Kingwell write a third of the way into in pursuit of happiness, his forth book “it is that they do not know how to think clearly about what happiness might be. In this artical i will describe that experience makes him more happy, except in so far as they provide grist for his wondering but intellectually challenging discussion of the source and nature of real happiness. and he describes in postscript the simple happiness Fred Astaire movies` bring him. Infect he makes it abundantly clear that experiencing happiness has vary little to do with dissecting it.

They say,In many ways that i view philosophy as a way to get our heads something we can not get understand.Scientifically i believe happiness is something we can getting a grasp of scientifically.

Regarding to me,I say about the nature of happiness and idea of ”better living.”Ultimately,he defends an Aristotelian view of happiness as leading a virtuous life,but on the way he gives plenty of analysis of modern trends in popular culture,he also write about his own life.a nice feature of the book is Kingwell’s ability to mix together popular culture,academic philosophy and literary studies from magazine such as the New Yorker. According to this article i would like to say,it’s a great asset to be able to do it well.He also relates it to the traditions of the stoics and Lao and Buddha.While he was going through the seminar,and one gets a scene of what the experience means to him personally.He discuses the long tradition of equating happiness with pleasure,and shows the problems with such a view.He examines the question whether western culture is devoted to providing people with pleasure,and concludes that hedonism and puritanism are in fact closely linked together,and that we are”a culture suffering from bipolar disorder.”In the end, I think the part of this book are greater then whole.Kingwell argues for a plausible view of happiness,but there’s nothing particularly original about his conclusion.But the individual discussions that he gives along the way are worth taking seriously,even if they occasionally smack of academic dinner party conversation.This book will appeal to a wide range of readers,and deserves to get public attention.