"A happy life" is an important ethical issue in Martha Nussbaum's research. Nussbaum believes that a happy life is achieved by realizing potential virtues through actions and by flourishing one's humanity through political life in the polis and entering into a friendship with another person. Marx's view of happiness holds that under the capitalist private ownership system, starting from the relationship between capitalists and workers, labor is the source of human happiness, and true human happiness needs to be realized through labor. What is happiness? This moral question has always been the focus of discussion among ethicists. The discussions of philosophers throughout history and around the world on virtue and happiness have accumulated profound thoughts on the issue of happiness. Marx, starting from the dialectical natural relations between people, individuals and society, and society and nature, pointed out that free labor by humans and their free and all-round development in transforming the objective world is happiness. In today's rapidly changing world, as Marx said, "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned." People generally feel that vulnerability is closely linked to life, leading to pessimism and nihilism. Against this backdrop, the thoughts of Marx and Nussbaum on "happiness" undoubtedly have a clarifying effect and offer significant inspiration and encouragement to a society filled with pessimism and nihilism.

A happy life;The concept of happiness;The convergence

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DOI： https://doi.org/10.62639/sspjiss21.20250203

Published： 2025