Most people who dedicate their lives to attaining happiness don‘t know what it is they are looking for. And I do not mean not knowing ―the way‖ to happiness that so many books in the popular press claim to illuminate. I am talking about what happiness is. The authors of such books speak to the question of what causes happiness, in other words, what factors in our lives, or aspects of our attitudes result in happiness. These claims, of course, depend on the author‘s knowledge of what happiness is. This is knowledge that we currently lack