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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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What is Happiness?

Whilst going through my psychology bookmarks the other day, I came across this link: What is Happiness? Ellen Kenner’s web page leads with a choice quote by Ayn Rand: Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to enjoy. Happiness is a state  of non-contradictory joy – a joy without [...]

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The Pursuit Of Happiness 60 Minutes Video – CBSNews.com

Continuing with the previous post’s discussion of national variations in happiness, this is an interesting video that I bookmarked awhile ago, hoping that I’d have a reason to come back to it. Little Denmark, with its five-and-a-half million people, is the happiest country in the world, says a study done by an English University. Morley [...]

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National differences in happiness

National differences in happiness

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