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 vii
... less mysterious, and a little less elusive. When a biologist puts a pin through a frog so she can study it, she ends up with something less than a frog. A lot of information has been lost. For starters, it no longer does anything. Much ...
... less mysterious, and a little less elusive. When a biologist puts a pin through a frog so she can study it, she ends up with something less than a frog. A lot of information has been lost. For starters, it no longer does anything. Much ...
Strana viii
... less described , and still less measured and quantified . In the progressive era we moderns inhabit , this presents us with problem : we are busily changing , more like remaking , the world to suit our designs . As a general rule , we ...
... less described , and still less measured and quantified . In the progressive era we moderns inhabit , this presents us with problem : we are busily changing , more like remaking , the world to suit our designs . As a general rule , we ...
Strana xv
... less obvious, as she tended not to go in for lengthy philosophical disquisitions, her teachings being mainly by the force of her personality. (My father received many requests to write a book about her but never managed to, in great ...
... less obvious, as she tended not to go in for lengthy philosophical disquisitions, her teachings being mainly by the force of her personality. (My father received many requests to write a book about her but never managed to, in great ...
Strana 4
... less legitimate than this , but this is a pretty central meaning — I would suggest the central meaning — all the same . Readers who come away from this book unpersuaded of my linguistic proposal are welcome to keep the word and , well ...
... less legitimate than this , but this is a pretty central meaning — I would suggest the central meaning — all the same . Readers who come away from this book unpersuaded of my linguistic proposal are welcome to keep the word and , well ...
Strana 14
... less Transparency holds — the higher the bar for Aptitude . Both of these assumptions will be called into question . 4. BROADER THEMES : THREE ERRORS IN THINKING ABOUT WELL - BEING 4.1 . The Benthamite error In the course of our ...
... less Transparency holds — the higher the bar for Aptitude . Both of these assumptions will be called into question . 4. BROADER THEMES : THREE ERRORS IN THINKING ABOUT WELL - BEING 4.1 . The Benthamite error In the course of our ...
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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