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Oct 28, 2010 · --Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College"Both progress and provocation are vibrantly on display in Dan Haybron's oustanding new book, The Pursuit of Unhappiness. The book is a model of humanistic inquiry: acute philosophical argumentation disciplined by close and careful attention to the latest and best in the sciences of mind, everywhere textured ...
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- Daniel M. Haybron
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Sep 25, 2008 · 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 ...
- Daniel M Haybron
Sep 1, 2008 · 54 ratings3 reviews. 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 ...
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Nov 15, 2008 · The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being - Kindle edition by Haybron, Daniel M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being.
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- Daniel M. Haybron
May 24, 2021 · Or how to make a mongrel concept hunt -- Pleasure -- Life satisfaction -- Emotional state -- Happiness as psychic affirmation -- Well-being and virtue -- Happiness, the self, and human flourishing -- Do we know how happy we are? -- Pursuit of unhappiness -- Happiness in context : notes on the good society Includes bibliographical references (p.
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 ...
Liberal optimism consequently rests on a questionable view of human nature: we may not be well-equipped for the individualized pursuit of happiness, perhaps even tending unwittingly to be pursuers of unhappiness when we possess the freedom to fashion our lives according to our own designs.
