Robert Nozick's Happiness Many theorists believe that happiness is the only important thing in people's lives, and all that should matter to a person is being happy . The standard for evaluating a good life is how much or how much happiness it contains. This openness of happiness, its generosity of spirit and breadth of appreciation, are distorted and limited by the statement that pretends to be its greatest friend: that only happiness matters, nothing else. Robert Nozick is not on the side of hedonistic utilitarianism, but he provides several examples to demonstrate that there are other elements of reality that we can strive for, even at the expense of pleasure. In this essay I will focus on Nozick's opinion on the direction of happiness and the experience machine, and finally on how I can answer the question What is happiness. Nozick analyzes the amount of happiness and concludes that you need to care about more than the total amount. of happiness in your life. To have a better life, one must worry about when this happiness has been distributed in life. Someone's life would be considered something more...