In and out ideas of goodness

Is there a connection between worldviews and happiness? Yes, there is. In the same conditions people with a certain philosophy of life are found to be happy while those with other philosophies of life are found to be unhappy. To quote (Roy and Srivastava, 1986, 164):

Philosophical and moral writings have approached the question of good from different perspectives. Broadly speaking, according to Ernest Gellner, two such perspectives can be identified as In and Out justifications. In justifications appeal primarily to something accessible and tangible inside the world or preferably, inside man, whereas Out justifications appeal to something outside, something beyond us in kind and merit, something superior and transcendent. One of the merits of Out justifications lies in their ability to solve the problem of validation. They provide the rules of their own validation and set up certain norms that provide absolutely reliable and adequate motives for action. These rules and norms, since their generation is uncorrupted by a worldly origin, provide a truly universally valid and invariant guidance for man action. However, their crucial weakness is that it is difficult to believe in them. When confronted with the question of: how do you know? no good reply is forthcoming.