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This book is a collection of chapters on happiness and well-being. It includes contributions from scientists from all over the world, who present different, multifaceted, dialectically open perspectives and sensitivities regarding happiness. The authors discuss happiness and well-being from biological, biopsychosocial, anthropological, and philosophical points of view.
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This volume sets the start for the Quaderni "Cesare Alfieri", commissioned by the Council of the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence as a scientific and editorial project aimed at involving all the cultural components animating the School. This work is an attempt to create an occasion of dialogue, research to deepen the acquired knowledge and investigate complex social issues from different points of view. For this first Quaderno - or notebook - the Scientific Committee has decided to focus on the concept of "well-being", to observe it from different perspectives and to relate it to the notion of happiness. The survey aims to offer food for thought, some lines for a path, different views on a theme that constitutes one of the great knots that our democracies must face: the well-being to be conquered, especially in the twentieth century, a real challenge for the beginning of a new Millennium.
Welfare state. --- Happiness. --- Wealth.
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There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of happiness, but to consider what factors, if any, contribute to positive and sustainable experiences of well-being and quality of life. Increasingly, such research is focusing on the importance of values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively under-examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify that omission, by identifying the nature and role of the religious contribution to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading scholars from the field of economics, psychology, public theology and social policy have been brought together in this volume to explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness and well-being. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of well-being, including marriage, crime and rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental health, environment, participation, institutional theory, business and trade. They engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This unique volume brings to public notice the nature and role of religion's contribution to wellbeing, including new ways of measurement and evaluation. As such, it represents a valuable and unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-based religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular relevance for those who are concerned about the continuing debate about personal and societal well-being, as well as those who are interested in the continuing significance of religion for the future of public policy.
Happiness --- Economics --- Well-being --- Religious aspects.
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Le bonheur est-il un phénomène unique ou l'enchaînement d’humeurs contrastées ? Un état de tranquillité et de sérénité ou le fait d’une vie vécue intensément ? Faut-il être averti de son bonheur pour le vivre ? Comment régler le dilemme entre affects et cognition ? Le bonheur est, pour le moins, un concept dont la principale caractéristique est de ne pas donner prise à une interprétation unique. Or, si le malheur a été abondamment étudié par les sciences humaines et sociales, le bonheur jusqu’ici ne semble pas avoir été un objet bon à penser par et pour l’anthropologie, au contraire de la psychologie ou de l’économie. Initié afin de réduire cet écart, cet ouvrage collectif s’attache à montrer de quelles façons, au-delà du constat de la variabilité culturelle et individuelle de ses manifestations, le bonheur peut être saisi dans ses formes élémentaires. Les auteurs rassemblés dans Ethnologie des gens heureux proposent ainsi des pistes de réflexion à la fois méthodologiques et théoriques qui, tout en se réclamant d’orientations de recherche personnelles, offrent au lecteur un ensemble de matériaux ethnographiques attachés à rendre plus compréhensible ce qui fait le bonheur des êtres humains.
Happiness --- Bonheur --- Research --- Social aspects --- Recherche --- Aspect social --- Psychology --- Anthropology --- bonheur --- philosophie --- anthropologie --- sociologie --- concept
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Suis-je heureux ? L’argent fait-il le bonheur ? Une vie heureuse, est-ce une vie réussie ? Y a-t-il un droit au bonheur ? Autant de questions qui taraudent chacun d’entre nous mais que les philosophe se sont déjà posées depuis l’Antiquité. L’économie, la psychologie, la neurologie, les sciences sociales se sont, ces dernières années, emparées de ces questions pour essayer de leur trouver des réponses. Le présent ouvrage explore l’apport de la psychologie, de la neurologie, de l’économie et des sciences sociales à la réflexion sur le bonheur sous un angle non pas simplement individuel mais également social. Il envisage les conditions auxquelles la préoccupation utilitariste du « plus grand bonheur du plus grand nombre » peut aujourd’hui se formuler et trouver une réponse en envisageant par exemple si une attention sociale au déficit individuel de bonheur doit être portée ou si l’on doit compenser socialement le mal-être individuellement ressenti. L’un des mérites de l’ouvrage est donc de donner une actualité à des interrogations posées par la tradition philosophique classique en rendant sensibles à des lecteurs contemporains le sens et la pertinence qu’elles reçoivent encore aujourd’hui.
Happiness. --- Pleasure. --- Emotions --- Ethics --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Hedonism --- Gladness --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being --- Bonheur --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Philosophie --- Aspect social --- bonheur --- bien-être --- plaisir --- liberté --- accomplissement --- utilitarisme
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How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. The contributors explore how happiness intersects with dominant social values as well as an array of aims and aspirations that are potentially conflicting, demonstrating that not every kind of happiness is seen as a worthwhile aim or evaluated in positive moral terms.
Values. --- Happiness. --- Well-being. --- Quality of life. --- Ethnology --- Comparative method. --- Gladness --- Emotions --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
teachers' well-being --- teachers' resilience --- teachers' happiness --- teachers' health --- school's environment --- workplace well-being --- positive psychology
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This open access book defines happiness intuitively and explores several common conceptual mistakes with regard to happiness. It then moves on to address topical issues including, but not limited to, whether money can buy you happiness, why happiness is ultimately the only thing of intrinsic value, and the various factors important for happiness. It also presents a more reliable and interpersonally comparable method for measuring happiness and discusses twelve factors, from A to L, that are crucial for individual happiness: attitude, balance, confidence, dignity, engagement, family/friends, gratitude, health, ideals, joyfulness, kindness and love. Further, it examines important public policy considerations, taking into account recent advances in economics, the environmental sciences, and happiness studies. Novel issues discussed include: an environmentally responsible happy nation index to supplement GDP, the East Asian happiness gap, a case for stimulating pleasure centres of the brain, and an argument for higher public spending.
Happiness. --- Quality of life. --- Well-being. --- Welfare (Personal well-being) --- Wellbeing --- Quality of life --- Happiness --- Health --- Wealth --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Gladness --- Emotions --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Well-being --- Promote Happiness --- Subjective Wellbeing --- Welfare --- Life Satisfaction --- Purpose of Life --- Public Policy --- Open Access
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Inscrits dans le cadre de son enseignement de la philosophie, les textes anti-épicuriens de Plutarque illustrent les règles d’honnêteté intellectuelle que toute polémique doit respecter, sous peine de perdre toute valeur. C’est ainsi que, parmi les ouvrages conservés de son œuvre, deux dialogues, Contre Colotès et Qu’il n’est pas non plus possible de vivre plaisamment en suivant Épicure, auxquels il convient d’ajouter l’opuscule Si la maxime « Vis caché » est bonne, nous livrent une analyse quasi systématique de l’épicurisme, qui vise à réfuter, sans déformation sectaire, des thèses adverses et, sans mauvaise foi, l’ensemble du système épicurien, qu’il s’agisse de la gnoséologie, de la cosmologie, de la théologie, de l’anthropologie, ou du souverain bien, du droit et de l’amitié. Dans tous ces domaines, les postulats initiaux sont si radicalement opposés qu’ils rendent impossibles une confrontation dialectique des idées et encore plus un effort d’empathie herméneutique. Mais, si les critiques développées par Plutarque relèvent d’une tradition largement platonicienne, et pour une moindre part stoïcienne, et ne présentent pas un caractère très original, elles reposent sur une connaissance personnelle des écrits des membres du Jardin, et pas seulement de son fondateur, et notamment de leur correspondance. À cet égard, son témoignage devient précieux. En outre, la détermination des apories inhérentes aux théories incriminées, dont la dénonciation réapparaît incidemment ailleurs dans le reste de son œuvre à des degrés et à des titres divers, donne à Plutarque l’occasion d’affirmer avec plus de précision ses propres positions et nous permet d’entrer dans le cabinet privé de ses méditations sur les premiers principes.
Epicureans (Greek philosophy) --- Philosophy of nature --- Happiness --- Epicuriens --- Philosophie de la nature --- Bonheur --- History --- Histoire --- Plutarch --- Philosophy --- épicurisme --- philosophie --- Épicure --- Plutarque
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Im Sommersemester 2008 veranstaltete die Abteilung Mediävistik des Instituts für Literaturwissenschaft der Universitàt (TH) Karlsruhe eine Vortragsreihe zum Thema Glück - Zufall - Vorsehung. Sie begleitete damit die gleichzeitig stattfindende Ausstellung des Badischen Landesmuseums Voiles Risiko. Dieser Band enthält sechs der gehaltenen Vorträge. Sie greifen vornehmlich Themen aus den Forschungsbereichen der Älteren und Neueren Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Europäischen Ethnologie auf.
Happiness in literature. --- Coincidence in literature. --- Fate and fatalism in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Renaissance --- Machiavelli --- Florenz --- Philosophie --- Geschichte
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