What is this thing called happiness?

What is this thing called happiness? / Fred Feldman.

Fred Feldman presents a study of the nature and value of happiness. He offers critical discussions of the main philosophical and psychological theories of happiness, and a presentation and defense of his own theory of happiness.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feldman, Fred, 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Glück,...
Happiness > Philosophy.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Happiness > Philosophy
Philosophie
Glück
Geluk (voorspoed)
Filosofische aspecten.
Glück.
Freude.
Psychologie.
Philosophie.
bien-être > bonheur > hédonisme > plaisir.
bien-être > bonheur > plaisir.
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Table of Contents:
  • Some puzzles about happiness
  • pt. I. Some things that happiness isn't. Sensory hedonism about happiness
  • Kahneman's "objective happiness"
  • Subjective local preferentism about happiness
  • Whole life satisfaction concepts of happiness
  • pt. II. What happiness is. What is this thing called happiness?
  • Attitudinal hedonism about happiness
  • Eudaimonism
  • The problem of inauthentic happiness
  • Disgusting happiness
  • Our authority over our own happiness
  • pt. III. Implications for the empirical study of happiness. Measuring happiness
  • Empirical research; philosophical conclusions
  • The central points of the project as a whole.

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