"Happiness: Two Views" Happiness is something everyone wants, said Aristotle, and yet the definitions of happiness vary as does the rate of success in achieving it. Consider how Aristotle and the Dalai Lama address fundamental happiness issues: what is it, how can we get it, what habits of mind or action tend to thwart or prevent its achievement and how these habits can be changed. Sweers has an A.M. from Boston University with a major in philosophy and has done extensive additional work in a doctoral program. The major part of her teaching career was spent at New Trier High School, Winnetka, Ill. Following early retirement, she has spent over a decade teaching in various older adult programs in northern Illinois and now in Milwaukee.