Happiness is the concept of great importance. Plato and Aristotle believed that happiness is the supreme god.
Aristotle refused to link happiness with the pleasure of the senses. He said the relation between an activity and it's pleasure was one of cause and effect.
A Militarian (who calculate why people do things) would argue that before you do an activity, you should estimate the amount of pleasure and pain that will come.
Jeremy Bentham - The felicific calculus (the measurement of pleasure and pain)
Variable 1 - Fecundity - probability that the action will be followed by sensations of the same kind
Variable 2 - Purity - probability that it will not be followed by sensations of the opposite kind
In terms of politics and public policy, Bentham said that we must consider 'extension'. Extension is to consider how widely the pains and pleasures will be spread across the population.
Aesthetic - Schopenhauer and Kant believed in this. It relates to the world as will and idea which was one of Schopenhauers written pieces, portraying aesthetics and the arts.
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