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The psychology of happiness : a good human life /

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, Samuel S., 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is happiness?
  • Happiness as fulfillment
  • Aristotle's ethics
  • Actualization : psychological views
  • Finding potentials
  • The things we need to be happy : goods, intrinsic motivation, and the golden mean
  • Introduction to virtue
  • Some of the more important moral virtues
  • Virtue and emotion
  • Early psychological views of virtue and emotion
  • Virtue and emotion : recent psychological views
  • The physiological basis of virtue
  • Emotional intelligence
  • The development of virtue
  • Psychological views of virtue development
  • The polis
  • Contemplation : a different kind of happiness.