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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
Dec 1, 2015 · Background. The hopelessness theory was developed, in large measure, as a response to limitations in Seligman’s (1972) learned helplessness theory of depression. This earlier model of depression was based in part on the finding that dogs that were repeatedly exposed to uncontrollable shocks would cease to attempt to escape even when this possibility was later made available to them (Overmier ...
- Richard T. Liu, Evan M. Kleiman, Bridget A. Nestor, Shayna M. Cheek
- 10.1111/cpsp.12125
- 2015
- 2015/12/12
Oct 1, 2009 · It also introduces us to the conceptual distinctions between happiness and well-being and well-being and the good life, and provides the desiderata for a satisfactory theory of happiness. The best theory of happiness will be the one that is most faithful to our ordinary ways of speaking and thinking (descriptive adequacy or intuitive ...
Feb 6, 2023 · The Adlerian theory diverges from the Freudian theory whereby Freud's theory is centered around the idea that a person’s past experiences, particularly early childhood traumas, shape their ...
By 'happiness' is meant pleasure and the absence of pain; by 'unhappiness' is meant pain and the lack of pleasure. To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more needs to be said, especially about what things the doctrine includes in the ideas of pain and pleasure, and to what extent it leaves this as an open question.
(44) A theory of happiness, according to Haybron, must both be descriptively adequate and fits with our practical interests: the aim is therefore “to find a concept that does what the folk concept should have done in the first place.” (47) In the second part of the book, Haybron unfolds his theory of happiness.
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5 days ago · hedonistic Utilitarianism. utilitarianism, in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action (or type of action) is right if it tends to promote happiness or pleasure and wrong if it tends to produce unhappiness or ...
