True Happiness in The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut and Hans Weingar

authorized comfort in The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut and Hans Weingartners The Eduakators A large softw be of the population has as their ultimate goal in life achieving well-being. alas many try to achieve it through the wrong means. For instance, in The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut, Malachi Constant thinks he is truly happy, but what he really does is contact his hedonism, satisfy his shallow needs, without truly searching for a higher lick of well-being. Not only does a life focused on voluptuous satisfaction not achieve true happiness, it also leads, along with the fight to accumulate, egocentrism, and greed, to an unethical life. The Sirens of Titans depicts this kind of life, which is also represented throughout The Edukators, directed by Hans Weingartner. Both Malachi Constant and Hardenberg believe that money is the solution to all of their problems composition ignoring the problems their own lifestyle is causing to other people and society as a whole. Happiness, our own and other peoples, is achieved by focusing our lives in the right things. Even though hedonic satisfaction is necessary for liveliness a happy life, focusing only on hedonic entertainment will have the opposite effect. If you focus on money and the things it deal buy as the source for your well-being, you are excluding a series of factors that are necessary to achieve a true state of well-being. The following modulation from the article On Happiness and Human Potentials A Re lieu of question on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being clearly details that Drawing from the eudaimonic view and from SDT, Kasser & Ryan (1993, 1996) related money and materialism to well-being. They predicted that people who place a well value on wealth... ...ses life. The only way humanity grass achieve true well-being is if abdicates its urge to accumulate and refocus its broadly speaking hedonic ways to a more eudaimonic way of life.Works CitedThe Edukators. Dir. H ans Weingartner. IFC Films, 2004.Mill, joke Stuart. Utilitarianism. Indianapolis Hackett Publishing Company, 1979.Nenno, Nancy P. Postcards from the Edge. Light Motives German Popular Film in Perspective. Eds. Halle, Randall and McCarthy, Margaret. Detroit Wayne State University Press, 2003. 61-84.Reed, Peter J. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Dictionary of Literary Biography. ed. 1978.Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. On Happiness and Human Potentials A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudamonic Well-Being. annual Review of Psychology 52 (2001) 141-166.Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. New York Dell Publishing, 1998.