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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... least someone in the profession, was working on, or at least knew something about. Things worked out in the end, due in no small measure to the remarkable generosity of many individuals and several institutions. I am extremely grateful ...
... least someone in the profession, was working on, or at least knew something about. Things worked out in the end, due in no small measure to the remarkable generosity of many individuals and several institutions. I am extremely grateful ...
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... least for some of us, is indescribable, but utterly profound, like being a different person. Part of my great fortune, given my future research interests, was to have had the opportunity to move back and forth between radically ...
... least for some of us, is indescribable, but utterly profound, like being a different person. Part of my great fortune, given my future research interests, was to have had the opportunity to move back and forth between radically ...
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... least trivial: it concerns one of the chief desiderata ofa good life, and of any society that hopes to qualify as civilized. Happiness, thus understood, is not the only thing that matters in the world, nor even in a person's life ...
... least trivial: it concerns one of the chief desiderata ofa good life, and of any society that hopes to qualify as civilized. Happiness, thus understood, is not the only thing that matters in the world, nor even in a person's life ...
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... least three forms of rationalism and sentimentalism regarding well-being, including normative views about the roles of reason and sentiment in the constitution of well-being (as in the example of hedonism) or, second, in the proper ...
... least three forms of rationalism and sentimentalism regarding well-being, including normative views about the roles of reason and sentiment in the constitution of well-being (as in the example of hedonism) or, second, in the proper ...
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... least in some of their most popular forms. Kantians, for instance, demand a degree of rational governance of life that may not, by the end of this book, seem clearly to be feasible or desirable for human beings; consequentialists ...
... least in some of their most popular forms. Kantians, for instance, demand a degree of rational governance of life that may not, by the end of this book, seem clearly to be feasible or desirable for human beings; consequentialists ...
Obsah
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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