Optimal Happiness
Optimal Happiness

Author: Roman Russo

Publisher: Roman Russo

Published: 2020-09

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9789083101002

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Ask a million people to define happiness, and you get a million answers. They won't all be good answers, or at least the people who give you these answers won't be as happy as they wish they could be. After all, living in the most advanced society the world has ever seen, most people are still negative, depressed, and deal with a host of other problems that prevent them from being truly happy. Current literature does not have a solution to this problem either, as it does not address how all the different bits of happiness advice come together. With this, Optimal Happiness is the first model that combines different pieces of happiness advice and clearly states what we need to do to reach our maximum happiness potential today and how to maintain it forever. Not only do we want to be happy, but also we want to be the happiest we can be. However, traditional psychology studies predominantly the negative side of emotional wellbeing and positive psychology the positive emotions, which leaves Optimal Happiness with the task of addressing the question of happiness maximisation and optimisation.

Perfect Happiness
Perfect Happiness

Author: Kristyn Kusek Lewis

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0062966642

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From the beloved author of Half of What You Hear, a perceptive and poignant novel about a woman discovering that her expertise can only get her so far in matters of the heart. Charlotte McGanley knows happiness. Just ask anyone who’s read Perfect Happiness, her bestselling book about how she, a busy mother and professor, used her no-nonsense positive psychology research to brighten her own life. She always pictured her career beginning and ending in the halls of academia, but now she’s become a bit of a self-help guru. No one is more surprised by this than Charlotte herself, who has secretly never been more miserable. Though her husband of many years, Jason, is her partner in all things, she finds more gratification most evenings in a glass (or three) of Chardonnay or another scroll through her Instagram feed. Meanwhile, their daughter, Birdie, is feeling the pressure of being her high school’s star tennis player, keeping up her GPA, and having her first boyfriend—and Charlotte, despite all her expertise, has no idea how to help her. As Charlotte preaches the gospel of happiness to her undergraduate students, audiences across the country, and her own online followers, she’s faced with some tough questions: What is happiness when the family you’ve nurtured starts to fall apart in front of your eyes? When your daughter seems determined to self-destruct? When the man you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with—and took for granted because of it—gets fed up? When all of the tools that you push to your loyal followers just don’t seem to work? In this bittersweet family love story, Kristyn Kusek Lewis explores how easy it is to lose connection with the people closest to us, and what happens when we try to find our way back.

Aristotle on the Human Good
Aristotle on the Human Good

Author: Richard Kraut

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0691225125

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible aggregate of intrinsic goods. Richard Kraut proposes instead that Aristotle identifies happiness with only one type of good: excellent activity of the rational soul. In defense of this reading, Kraut discusses Aristotle's attempt to organize all human goods into a single structure, so that each subordinate end is desirable for the sake of some higher goal. This book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life. As Kraut argues, Aristotle's belief that thinking is the sole activity of the gods leads him to an intellectualist conception of the ethical virtues. Aristotle values these traits because, by subordinating emotion to reason, they enhance our ability to lead a life devoted to philosophy or politics.

Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Happiness and the Good Life in Japan

Author: Wolfram Manzenreiter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1317352726

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Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political establishment and generating alternative lifestyles and possibilities of the self. Amongst this nascent change, Japanese society is confronted with new challenges to answer the fundamental question of how to live a good life of meaning, purpose and value. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and original research, considers how specific groups of Japanese people view and strive for the pursuit of happiness. It examines the importance of relationships, family, identity, community and self-fulfilment, amongst other factors. The book demonstrates how the act of balancing social norms and agency is at the root of the growing diversity of experiencing happiness in Japan today.

The Right and the Good
The Right and the Good

Author: David Ross

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2002-08-02

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0191530964

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The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The central concern of the book is with rightness and goodness, and their relation. Ross argues against notable rival ethical theories. The right act, he held, cannot be derived from the moral value of the motive from which it is done. Furthermore, rightness is not wholly determined by the value of the consequences of one's action, whether this value is some benefit for the agent, or some agent-neutral good. Rather, the right act is determined by a plurality of self-evident prima facie duties. Ross portrayed rightness and goodness as simple non-natural properties. Philip Stratton-Lake, a leading expert on Ross, provides a substantial new Introduction, in which he discusses the central themes of The Right and the Good and clears up some common misunderstandings. A new bibliography and index are also included, along with editorial notes which aim to clarify certain points and indicate where Ross later changed his mind on particular issues. Intuitionism is now enjoying a considerable revival, and this new edition provides the context for a proper understanding of Ross's great work.

EL-Method
EL-Method

Author: Tony Gaschler

Publisher: verlag4you

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 3936612676

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Do you suffer from shyness, self-consciousness, facial blushing, fear of public speaking, stage fright, lack of self-confidence and other emotional inhibitions? Then help yourself to eliminate these inhibitions here and now with the EL Method! The EL METHOD by Tony Gaschler is an INTENSIVE ELIMINATION METHOD, which you can use to rid yourself quickly of unwanted psychological and social inhibitions in a surprisingly easy way without needing help from anyone else. Tragic though the effects of inhibitions might be, there is also a simple way of removing them. A highly-effective self-help technique with distinct effective factors can be used to help you replace inhibitions with a genuine and self-confident pattern of behavior in a short space of time. You can rid yourself of any feelings of inhibition or any outward signs of inhibition that so often make your life difficult. What EFFECTIVE FACTORS are used to eliminate my inhibitions? The well-known psychologist and hypnosis specialist, Tony Gaschler (Germany), has spent years researching and developing a special form of autosuggestion: "DYNAMIC AUTOSUGGESTION". This dynamic autosuggestion method systematically erases old patterns of behavior, removes negative inhibitions and replaces them with new, self-assured RESPONSE SYSTEMS. This dynamic method is unique and particularly effective. The dynamic autosuggestion method has an advantage over other methods in that it is more intense, is faster and, above all, it acts fully automatically. It does not matter whether you believe in it or not. It will always produce the same effective results. Through your new, self-assured response system you will change your behavior patterns so quickly that even in the first weeks that you start practicing your success will be noticeable to your friends and associates. As a side effect, you will notice an increased joy of life, you will experience more feelings of happiness and will start to enjoy social interactions.

The Purpose of Life
The Purpose of Life

Author: Stewart Goetz

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1441180826

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An accessible exploration of what philosophers have had to say about the meaning of life.

Well-Being and Theism
Well-Being and Theism

Author: William A. Lauinger

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 144116863X

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Well-Being and Theism is divided into two distinctive parts. The first part argues that desire-fulfillment welfare theories fail to capture the 'good' part of 'good for', and that objective list welfare theories fail to capture the 'for' part of 'good for'. Then, with the aim of capturing both of these parts of 'good for', a conjunctive theory-one which places both a value constraint and a desire constraint on well-being-is advanced. Lauinger then defends this proposition, which he calls the desire-perfectionism theory, against possible objections. In the second part, Lauinger explores the question "What metaphysics best supports the claim that the vast majority of humans have the desires for friendship, accomplishment, health, etc., built into themselves?" It is argued that there are two general metaphysical routes that might convincingly be taken here, and that each one leads us toward theism.

Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's Ethics

Author: Nancy Sherman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780847689156

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The ethics of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), and virtue ethics in general, have seen a resurgence of interest over the past few decades. No longer do utilitarianism and Kantian ethics on their own dominate the moral landscape. In addition, Aristotelian themes fill out that landscape, with such issues as the importance of friendship and emotions in a good life, the role of moral perception in wise choice, the nature of happiness and its constitution, moral education and habituation, finding a stable home in contemporary moral debate. The essays in this volume represent the best of that debate. Taken together, they provide a close analysis of central arguments in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. But they do more than that. Each shows the enduring interest of the questions Aristotle himself subtly and complexly raises in the context of his own contemporary discussions.