Samuel S. Franklin

The Psychology of Happiness

A Good Human Life

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Produktbeschreibung

The Psychology of Happiness brings together a wide array of psychological theory and research supporting Aristotle's fulfilment view of happiness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780521138673
• ISBN-10: 0521138671
• Artikelnr.: 26573315

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.