Welfare Hedonism and Authentic Happiness

Author(s):  
Thomas Søbirk Petersen ◽  
Jesper Ryberg
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2021 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 103115
Author(s):  
Tarryn Phillips ◽  
John Taylor ◽  
Edward Narain ◽  
Philippa Chandler

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipankar Khanna

Indexing of data for Happiness, Sadness, Feeling Hurt and Heroism (Acting Creatively to create authentic happiness for others and oneself by practicing Moral and Ethical codes (Yama and Niyama).


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Michael Moriarty

Pascal sees happiness (bonheur) as the ultimate goal of all human activity, but argues that experience shows it to be unattainable; our underlying condition is unhappiness. In the immediate, he argues, human activities are forms of diversion or distraction, by which we seek to screen from ourselves our unhappiness and mortality and to gratify our vanity. This analysis omits the role of pleasure, which he elsewhere identifies as the motive force of all volition. In order to reconcile this anomaly, we need to distinguish between the motive of our actions, the ultimate end they have in view, and the Supreme Good. The motive of our actions is pleasure, their ultimate end happiness, and the Supreme Good God, in union with whom authentic happiness consists.


2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Scorsolini-Comin ◽  
Anne Marie Germaine Victorine Fontaine ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller ◽  
Manoel Antônio dos Santos

2009 ◽  
Vol os16 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon P Holt ◽  
Russ Ladwa

Mentoring and coaching, as they are currently practised, are relatively new techniques for working with people. The roots of the current approach can be traced back to the psychotherapist Carl Rogers, who developed a new ‘person-centred approach’ to counselling and quickly realised that this approach was also appropriate for many types of relationship, from education to family life. Rogers’ thinking was deeply influenced by dialogues with his friend, the existentialist philosopher Martin Buber. Developments in psychology building upon this new person-centred approach include transactional analysis (TA) and neurolingusitic programming (NLP). More recently, solutions-focused approaches have been used and a related approach to leadership in the business environment—strengths-based leadership—has been developed. In recent years, developments in neuroscience have greatly increased understanding not only of how the brain is ‘wired up’ but also of how it is specifically wired to function as a social organ. The increased understanding in these areas can be considered in the context of emotional and social intelligence. These concepts and knowledge have been drawn together into a more structured discipline with the development of the approach known as positive psychology, the focus of which is on the strengths and virtues that contribute to good performance and authentic happiness.


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