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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... Virtue , ” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy II : 2 ( 2007 ) . Most of Chapter 9 appeared in “ Happiness , the Self , and Human Flourishing , ” Utilitas ( 2008 ) . Sections of Chapters 1 and 2 are drawn from " Philosophy and the ...
... Virtue , ” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy II : 2 ( 2007 ) . Most of Chapter 9 appeared in “ Happiness , the Self , and Human Flourishing , ” Utilitas ( 2008 ) . Sections of Chapters 1 and 2 are drawn from " Philosophy and the ...
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... Virtue 9. Happiness , the Self , and Human Flourishing PART IV : PURSUING HAPPINESS 61 79 105 127 155 177 10. Do We Know How Happy We Are ? 199 11. The Pursuit of Unhappiness 225 12. Happiness in Context : Notes on the Good Society 253 ...
... Virtue 9. Happiness , the Self , and Human Flourishing PART IV : PURSUING HAPPINESS 61 79 105 127 155 177 10. Do We Know How Happy We Are ? 199 11. The Pursuit of Unhappiness 225 12. Happiness in Context : Notes on the Good Society 253 ...
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... virtue matters even more than well - being ; and beyond these there may be aesthetic and other values to be counted.3 Let's grant at the outset that many people care too much about happiness and put too much energy into seeking it . It ...
... virtue matters even more than well - being ; and beyond these there may be aesthetic and other values to be counted.3 Let's grant at the outset that many people care too much about happiness and put too much energy into seeking it . It ...
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... virtues — not just moral virtues , but admirable ways of being and living more generally . This has been an important step toward addressing Socrates ' question more fully . Yet simply shifting the emphasis from morality to virtue falls ...
... virtues — not just moral virtues , but admirable ways of being and living more generally . This has been an important step toward addressing Socrates ' question more fully . Yet simply shifting the emphasis from morality to virtue falls ...
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... virtue ethics . ( Even neo - Aristotelian accounts grounding the virtues in human flourishing are still , in the first instance , virtue theories . In fact it is sometimes hard to extract a definite conception of well - being from such ...
... virtue ethics . ( Even neo - Aristotelian accounts grounding the virtues in human flourishing are still , in the first instance , virtue theories . In fact it is sometimes hard to extract a definite conception of well - being from such ...
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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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