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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... perhaps , but a big improvement over sitting in the dark . Or so I hope . This is a theoretical work . But it is a work in ethical theory , and it is no defect in such an effort if it has , as well , some practical import . Think of ...
... perhaps , but a big improvement over sitting in the dark . Or so I hope . This is a theoretical work . But it is a work in ethical theory , and it is no defect in such an effort if it has , as well , some practical import . Think of ...
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... Perhaps they do not know there is anything missing from their experience of life , or even unpleasant about it . That would be something to know . A further cluster of inquiries concerns the provenance of these states . Do the people of ...
... Perhaps they do not know there is anything missing from their experience of life , or even unpleasant about it . That would be something to know . A further cluster of inquiries concerns the provenance of these states . Do the people of ...
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... Perhaps the superficiality lies in the way people tend to think about happiness and related states , and not in the idea that such matters are of central importance in a good life . This , probably , would have been the view of most ...
... Perhaps the superficiality lies in the way people tend to think about happiness and related states , and not in the idea that such matters are of central importance in a good life . This , probably , would have been the view of most ...
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... perhaps Democritus , held subtler views about the pleasures worth seeking — in the Epicurean case , the " static " pleasures of tranquility or ataraxia , and in the Democritean case euthymia , which is often translated as " cheerfulness ...
... perhaps Democritus , held subtler views about the pleasures worth seeking — in the Epicurean case , the " static " pleasures of tranquility or ataraxia , and in the Democritean case euthymia , which is often translated as " cheerfulness ...
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... Perhaps it should be the central task of intellectual inquiry , as it evidently was among the ancients . Nor should we be surprised if such thinkers paid close attention to the psychology of well - being : our minds are plainly the most ...
... Perhaps it should be the central task of intellectual inquiry , as it evidently was among the ancients . Nor should we be surprised if such thinkers paid close attention to the psychology of well - being : our minds are plainly the most ...
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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