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Happiness: Subjective Versus Objective     When I think of happiness, I think of the feeling a parent gets the first time they see their newborn child, or the first time a parent introduces their kid to the new family pet, or when I make a good grade on a test I stressed over for days while studying for. All of these examples have something in common, it is something that happens to you, or something that you get and as the end result, you feel the emotion of being happy. So, before reading this book, this is how I would have described happiness. As an adjective or a way of feeling. I would have described it as an emotion, and I would have left it at that. I also would have told you that I believe that everyone aspires to reach a level of happiness at some point in their lifetime. We see that Aristotle would agree with this statement, because he says “ As for its name, then, it is pretty much agreed on by most people; for both the many and the refined say that it...