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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... sort of work within the academy was palpable . To tell people you were working on happiness was to invite what David Lewis aptly called the “ incredulous stare . ” I quickly learned to say I was working on " well - being " or some other ...
... sort of work within the academy was palpable . To tell people you were working on happiness was to invite what David Lewis aptly called the “ incredulous stare . ” I quickly learned to say I was working on " well - being " or some other ...
Strana xiv
... sort of thing empirically - minded researchers like myself are supposed to say . But we already know the measures are imperfect , and if they tell us that , say , a root canal sans anesthesia doesn't hurt , we know there's something ...
... sort of thing empirically - minded researchers like myself are supposed to say . But we already know the measures are imperfect , and if they tell us that , say , a root canal sans anesthesia doesn't hurt , we know there's something ...
Strana xv
... sort of dense philosophical prose was not really his cup of tea.) Anyone perusing his writings about the island will have little trouble discerning the extent of my intellectual debts to him. He was my chief interlocutor, even about ...
... sort of dense philosophical prose was not really his cup of tea.) Anyone perusing his writings about the island will have little trouble discerning the extent of my intellectual debts to him. He was my chief interlocutor, even about ...
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... sort of life . ) Second , some of the states we associate with being happy , such as giddy elation , would have been thought undesirable by many ancient theorists . Third , many ancients — Stoics and Aristotelians , for instance ...
... sort of life . ) Second , some of the states we associate with being happy , such as giddy elation , would have been thought undesirable by many ancient theorists . Third , many ancients — Stoics and Aristotelians , for instance ...
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... sort of background , the richness and depth of ancient thought about human flourishing should come as no surprise : if most of us are badly mistaken about our own interests , then a better understanding of well - being must be among our ...
... sort of background , the richness and depth of ancient thought about human flourishing should come as no surprise : if most of us are badly mistaken about our own interests , then a better understanding of well - being must be among our ...
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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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