Do you think a person can lack virtue and still find happiness?

Question

Do you think a person can lack virtue and still find happiness?

Answer 1

Wow!  What a great question.  I had to reach back to college psychology to get a handle on it.  And I was reminded of sociopaths - it's an extreme analogy, but it fits.

If one doesn't fully understanding the meaning of the word, one can't miss what one doesn't understand or know what one is missing.

It's a bit like a person who might be born blind.  They will never know color, but they will never know what they are missing either. Hence, they could be happy with their interpretation of color.  

Your virtue-less person indeed might be happy.  

And that's the best I can do.

Very nice question,

Siggy

Answer 2

happiness . . . yes

deep, abiding joy . . . no

Answer 3

It depends, without moral values (virtue) you don't have much to strive for. For some reason in this world happiness is not a blessing or a miracle that appears, instead it must be acquired through some feat of greatness or earned through hard work. You tend to reach true happiness whenever you achieve something such as completing homework, making a good grade on a test, or getting a promotion at your job. You cannot achieve these things without some level of virtue. You have to have the drive and the values to complete what will make you happy.

Answer 4

Of course !

Answer 5

Lacking virtue, the happiness they would find would be fleeting.  Or else there is a possibility that finding happiness wherever they could, they would grow to be a more viturous person.