Another uncontroversial element of the sense of "meaningfulness" is that it connotes a good that is conceptually distinct from happiness or rightness (something emphasized in Wolf 2010).
Knowing that meaningfulness analytically concerns a variable and gradient final good in a person's life that is conceptually distinct from happiness, rightness, and worthwhileness provides a certain amount of common ground.
Not only that, this failure will be discernible through a distinct lack of happiness amongst an audience who've paid to watch them perform.
The problem is that the words "happy" and "happiness" are used today in variety of interrelated but distinct senses.
But Kahneman told me that his most recent studies, conducted with the Princeton economist Angus Deaton, suggest that money doesn't necessarily make much of a difference in our moment-to-moment happiness, which is distinct from our feelings of satisfaction.
Kant nevertheless rejects both under the contention that morality and happiness are conceptually distinct irreducible values; and even if one were to resist his claim that the Stoic conception of the Highest Good is analytic, there is still a suitable Kantian objection that can be made against it, for he repeatedly denies the possibility of a causal link between morality and happiness.
So this distinction of a "twofold happiness" should not be thought of as involving two fundamentally distinct goals or ends of human life.
It is about people finding happiness in domestic as distinct from public life, in the family as opposed to the state.
But that we have an interest in being happy or unhappy is distinct from the particular passions, their objects, or the happiness arising from the passions — although it may be a reason to prefer one passion over another.
Often, distinct measures, such as satisfaction with life, happiness and quality of life, are interchangeably used, even within studies, to provide information on SWB.
