OSU Philosophy Question

  Many  people, philosophers and non-philosophers, have thought that the most  important thing in life is happiness. Even those who don’t want to go  that far think happiness is an important ingredient in a good life and  that what counts as human happiness is deeply connected to human nature.For this  essay, I want you to select the philosopher or thinker who has come  closest to giving the correct account of human happiness. Then, I want  you to do the following:Describe what happiness or the good  life is like for their approach. This description should include such  things as what is necessary for happiness, what is sufficient (what  would be enough), whether it can be achieved alone or only in society  (and what kind of society), whether it is accessible to everyone or not,  what effort one has to put in, what qualities one needs, etc. You  should be as complete and concise as possible. Your account must be  supported by citations to primary sources; Provide their basic reasoning in  favor of this account. This should connect to what they think is  essential to human nature or what our most basic drives are, etc. It  should be clear why they think this is happiness for beings  like ours. This might require you to extrapolate and fill in the  thinking and views of the philosopher under consideration;Explain, with your own reasoning,  why this is the best account of human happiness that we have considered.  To do this, you will need to say what the view gets right, what (if  anything) it gets wrong, and why you think this is right or  wrong. You should provide your own account of what we need for happiness  insofar as it matches or diverges from the thinker you have considered.  Here you should be attempting to convince a reasonable but skeptical  reader to accept this view by appealing to plausible premises and  showing how this view follows.Your  essay must refer to primary sources and include citations (at minimum  author and page number), but should not consist of just a series of long  quotations. It should be clear that you have read and understood the  material and are able to explain it to a reader. My lectures and slides  are not a primary source and may not be cited in your essay; and, Lay out any ways in which your  reader ought to reform their lives, better to be able to achieve the  kind of happiness or good life tht you are endorsing.