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Aristotle Got It Right; Well-being, not just wealth, should mark the progress of our societies.
Byline: David Cameron (Cameron is the leader of Britain's Conservative Party.)
It is hard to escape the fact that in developed societies, despite progress, innovation and prosperity, there is something not quite right. In some cases, it is hard for people to put a finger on it: a feeling of emptiness and not belonging, a lack of defined relationships and solid social structures. In other respects, it is readily quantifiable: rates of drug abuse, violent crime and depression and suicide are rocketing. Why are we so unhappy? It seems that the Enlightenment brought forth unparalleled liberty in economic, social and political life, but we are now undergoing a midlife crisis.
The politics of happiness is nothing new. In his "Nicomachean Ethics," Aristotle said that eudaimonia , or happiness, is the goal of life. But for ...
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- Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction.
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- Happiness and Pleasure in European Thought
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Duvall, Tim; Miller, Jeffrey January 1, 2005 700+ words
HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE IN EUROPEAN THOUGHT. Most contemporary understandings of happiness are hedonic: happiness is a state of feeling most precisely defined by the subject of the feeling. Happiness in this sense is subjective and can be of brief...
- Happiness: Enough Already.(Psychology)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Begley, Sharon February 11, 2008 700+ words
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