Exploring Happiness : From Aristotle to Brain Science
by Sissela BokFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2011-07-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Author Biography
Sissela Bok is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and a moral philosopher of international renown. A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and sits on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Common Knowledge, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Her many books include the seminal Lying, Secrets, A Strategy for Peace, Mayhem, and Common Values. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| Luck | p. 1 |
| Experience | p. 11 |
| Discordant Definitions | p. 35 |
| "On the Happy Life" | p. 59 |
| Measurement | p. 83 |
| Beyond Temperament | p. 107 |
| Is Lasting Happiness Achievable? | p. 132 |
| Illusion | p. 155 |
| The Scope of Happiness | p. 173 |
| Notes | p. 179 |
| Index | p. 203 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
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