Summary Of Crisis In My Mental History By John Stuart Mill

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Do you think you are happy? Well, a lot of people will say yes but there will be a handful that will say no. John Stuart Mill claims in the autobiography, “Crisis in My Mental History” by John Stuart Mill, that us humans should not ask ourselves if we are happy or not, but rather feel it through experience. He claims that ask ourselves on how we are feeling, seems as, if we are searching for it which is not real happiness. Johns says his theory on happiness is that if we do what we love then slowly as we live on, it should just feel like happiness is already in the air. On the other hand, I do not agree with his claim and in my own opinion, I feel humans should be grateful for their life and achieve happiness through that, and asking yourself

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