What is false happiness? Construct a case of your own that provides an example of such happiness, and then assess its impact on the plausibility of hedonism?. Religious Studies
False happiness is a happiness that comes from ignorance, or a false believes. A perfect (yet sad) example of this would be a kid who thinks he receives letters from an absent parent, when in reality the parent left and it's the other parent who writes the letters. This doesn't really have an impact on hedonism because hedonists believe that happiness is happiness, regardless of the source. The kid's in the example is experiencing a true form of happiness, which derives from the false believe that his or her parent is still keeping in touch, even though this isn't true.
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