What is Happiness
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WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
In the dialogue of the great work of literature, Plato's Meno, Socrates and Meno discuss the concepts of health, size, strength, and virtue being the same in both men and women, young and old. In paragraph "B" Socrates and Meno discuss the particular topic of the strength of man and woman being the same. The strength in which these two speak of could very well be or not be the same in both man and woman.
Throughout history man and woman have been looked at differently with man being the strong, dominant figure. This may be true when dealing with physical strength but when speaking of the internal and spiritual sense of strength there is not any difference. It is obvious that the physical strength in woman will never be that of man because of the testosterone difference. The overall strength of woman is in some cases stronger than that of man due to the things in which they must endure during the course of their life.
Childbirth has been demonstrated throughout history as the single most painful thing a human being could possibly endure. A man cannot even begin to fathom the incredible strength and determination it must take for a woman to endure such an event...