The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-BeingOUP Oxford, 25. 9. 2008 - Počet stran: 376 The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren't very good at it? This and related questions are explored in this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness in the contemporary psychological sense. In these pages, Dan Haybron argues that people are probably less effective at judging, and promoting, their own welfare than common belief has it. For the psychological dimensions of well-being, particularly our emotional lives, are far richer and more complex than we tend to realize. Knowing one's own interests is no trivial matter. As well, we tend to make a variety of systematic errors in the pursuit of happiness. We may need, then, to rethink traditional assumptions about human nature, the good life, and the good society. Thoroughly engaged with both philosophical and scientific work on happiness and well-being, this book will be a definitive resource for philosophers, social scientists, policy makers, and other students of human well-being. |
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Strana xi
... better place, and I probably have more academic freedom here than I would at many secular institutions. Moreover, it seems to me incumbent for ethical theory to engage with people's values as they are, and with human nature as it is. We ...
... better place, and I probably have more academic freedom here than I would at many secular institutions. Moreover, it seems to me incumbent for ethical theory to engage with people's values as they are, and with human nature as it is. We ...
Strana xiv
... better life on the island was than I remembered it . ( If anything he was more likely to write about the bad days than the good ones . ) To be sure , we probably had it better than many islanders : fishing was hard work for little pay ...
... better life on the island was than I remembered it . ( If anything he was more likely to write about the bad days than the good ones . ) To be sure , we probably had it better than many islanders : fishing was hard work for little pay ...
Strana 4
... better ? Without more information , we can't really say . Is A riddled with injustice ? Are its people ignorant or corrupt ? Are they under another's thumb ? Do they live with dignity ? How long do they live ? What are the bad days like ...
... better ? Without more information , we can't really say . Is A riddled with injustice ? Are its people ignorant or corrupt ? Are they under another's thumb ? Do they live with dignity ? How long do they live ? What are the bad days like ...
Strana 10
... better in the continental literature than in the analytic or anglophone tradition in which the present book resides . Writers like Nietzsche and Sartre , for instance , were thinkers about the good life broadly speaking , and not just ...
... better in the continental literature than in the analytic or anglophone tradition in which the present book resides . Writers like Nietzsche and Sartre , for instance , were thinkers about the good life broadly speaking , and not just ...
Strana 11
... better off enslaved , with masters to look after us . Even Epicurean hedonists believed that most of us require considerable enlightenment about the true character of our interests ; the pursuit of pleasure , correctly understood , is ...
... better off enslaved , with masters to look after us . Even Epicurean hedonists believed that most of us require considerable enlightenment about the true character of our interests ; the pursuit of pleasure , correctly understood , is ...
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THE NATURE OF HAPPINESS | 59 |
THE NATURE OF WELLBEING | 153 |
PURSUING HAPPINESS | 197 |
Afterword | 281 |
Notes | 283 |
Bibliography | 317 |
Index | 343 |
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