If it benefits our individual happiness as affluent Westerners, is there any side-effect to the process?
Marriage for most people means the creation of a self-transcending reality in which individual happiness can be achieved.
What if individual happiness can serve the people more than anything else?
"We've got to make sure that their own individual happiness doesn't interfere with what our goals are going to be."
The founders had been far more concerned with the stability of the social structure than with individual happiness.
They believe in the possibility of individual happiness and the validity of individual opinion and initiative.
The welfare of the race demanded the mingling of the two cultures: in such a cause individual happiness was unimportant.
Public happiness won out over individual happiness.
What does Virgil's "Aeneid" tell us about destiny and individual happiness?
Working to benefit society maximizes individual happiness.