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6 de jul. de 2011 · On one proposal, happiness involves three broad categories of affective state, including “endorsement” states like joy versus sadness, “engagement” states like flow or a sense of vitality, and “attunement” states like tranquility, emotional expansiveness versus compression, and confidence.
The philosophy of happiness is the philosophical concern with the existence, nature, and attainment of happiness. Some philosophers believe happiness can be understood as the moral goal of life or as an aspect of chance; indeed, in most European languages the term happiness is synonymous with luck. [1]
23 de may. de 2024 · Happiness, in psychology, a state of emotional well-being that a person experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things happen in a specific moment, or more broadly, as a positive evaluation of one’s life and accomplishments overall—that is, subjective well-being.
The chapters in this section explore some of the central ideas about happiness from the history of philosophy, as well as some of the key methodological contributions of philosophy to current debates about happiness.
6 de jul. de 2011 · This entry focuses on the psychological sense of happiness (for the well-being notion, see the entry on ). The main accounts of happiness in this sense are hedonism, the life satisfaction theory, and the emotional state theory.
4 de dic. de 2021 · The (net) happiness (or welfare) of an individual is the excess of her positive affective feelings over negative ones. This subjective definition of happiness is more consistent with common usage and analytically more useful.
The following chapters explore the many understandings of happiness that exist today and illustrate that without conceptual clarifications, the study of happiness hardly make sense. This section opens with a chapter by Ruut Veenhoven, a true old-timer in happiness research.
