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Pursuing Happiness…

Here’s a pretty comprehensive article on the idea of happiness throughout the ages: Pursuing Happiness: The New Yorker. I found the following quotations particularly interesting. We have been hardwired to emphasize the negative, and, for most of human history, there has been a lot of the negative to emphasize. Hobbes’s description of life in the [...]

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Places of Happiness

I recently listened to a podcast interview with Eric Weiner, who wrote an interesting book called The Geography of Bliss. Rather than critique the various ideas about happiness that he and Will Wilkinson discussed, I thought I’d recommend you read a list of people’s descriptions of favorite places for experiencing a profound sense of bliss: Your Happiest [...]

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Happiness versus Altruism

Not sure where I came across this headline recently: Happiness is paying your taxes, study suggests The study is over a year old, but the ideas in it (like most ideas) are timeless. I suppose we should note at the outset that this research on the subject comes from Oregon, a place not averse to taxing [...]

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RE: Free Will: Happiness and the Foundations of Morality

This week I’m dipping into the swamps of social metaphysics in academia! For those not familiar with the term,  social metaphysics was outlined by Nathaniel Branden in The Psychology of Self-Esteem (his blog articles might be of value to you too ).   In a nutshell, when the nature of one’s reality is based on other people’s ideas, [...]

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