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In pursuit.(The Week)(happiness)
EVERYONE wants to live a happy life, but nobody, it seems, knows quite how to do it. John Stuart Mill captured the elusiveness of happiness when he argued against its direct pursuit. "Ask yourself whether you are happy," he wrote, "and you cease to be so."
There is little doubt that the pursuit of happiness in modern civilization is tied to the pursuit of income. But can money buy really buy happiness?
In this age of telephone surveys, we no longer must abandon the study of happiness to philosophers. Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven has made a career out of happiness. His official job title is "professor of social conditions for human happiness," and he ...
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