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What is it to be happy? A dictionary may define it as being content and sufficiently pleased with the situation you are in. But this definition in accordance with Rousseau is one that lacks the true depth to define actual happiness. Rousseau might rather say that happiness is something only possible when man is completely free. With the freedom to choose, man is a creature of contentment. In his Second Discourse Rousseau describes the world and societal pressure that the world bears upon us. As soon as we leave Rousseau's Garden of Eden, his natural state of man, we give up that ability to be happy. So with society man cannot be justly happy? But I sit here now with a smile on my face; I go to the movies and hear people speak of bliss, I read the paper and understand certain article to be "good news," so I must ask Rousseau how this is not happiness?
The key here is to find a way to differentiate between the happiness Rousseau is talking about and the happiness we have......

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