Samuel S. Franklin

Psychology of Happiness (eBook, PDF)

A Good Human Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When Thomas Jefferson placed 'the pursuit of happiness' along with life and liberty in The Declaration of Independence he was most likely referring to Aristotle's concept of happiness, or eudaimonia. Eudaimonia is not about good feelings but rather the fulfilment of human potentials. Fulfilment is made possible by virtue; the moderation of desire and emotion by reason. The Psychology of Happiness was the first book to bring together psychological, philosophical, and physiological theory and research in support of Aristotle's view. It examines the similarity between Aristotle's concept of virtue and modern cognitive theories of emotion. It discusses the discovery of human potentials, the development of virtue and its neurological basis, the mistaken idea that fulfilment is selfish, and several other issues related to the pursuit of a good human life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511629938
• Artikelnr.: 38184743

Autorenporträt

Samuel S. Franklin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California State University, Fresno. His work has focused on visual perception, motivation, the history of psychology, and the psychology of happiness. He began teaching the psychology of happiness in the late 1970s and was one of the first to do so. His research on Aristotle's view of happiness has been presented at conferences, and he has published several articles in the area of visual perception.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is happiness
2. Happiness as fulfillment
3. Aristotle's ethics
4. Actualization: psychological views
5. Knowing thyself
6. The things we need to be happy: the relativity of goods and the golden mean
7. Introduction to virtue
8. Some of the more important virtues
9. Virtue and emotion
10. Early psychological views of virtue and emotion
11. Virtue and emotion: recent psychological views
12. The physiological basis of virtue
13. Emotional intelligence
14. The development of virtue according to Aristotle
15. Psychological views of virtue development
16. The polis and actualization
17. Contemplation: another kind of happiness.