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Sustainable Hedonism : A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth

Drawing on modern science and ancient Greek philosophy, this book calls to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and dis...

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Autor principal: Lelkes, Orsolya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost the Earth -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Is There Anyone Who Does Not Want to Thrive? -- The challenge: one planet and a good life for all -- Our desire for growth and its failures -- The 'success story' we are telling ourselves -- The world as a marketplace -- (Unintended) consequences of economics and capitalism today -- Exploring and experiencing a thriving life -- Quest for happiness -- Values for a thriving life 
505 0 |a Pathways to a thriving life: experiential learning -- Our life as a living field -- Part I The Challenge -- 1 Unintended Consequences of Economics as a Science -- Not rational and not egoistic -- Self-fulfilling prophecy -- The economist is not a value-free outsider -- The responsibility of economists -- Not the recipe for success -- Beyond the model: our yearning for pleasure and freedom -- Hedonism: pleasure as the ultimate value -- Do desires drive the world? -- Celebrating freedom -- The manifesto of the pleasure-seeking person: the worldview 
505 0 |a 2 The Narrative of Success in Capitalism, and Its Failures -- The hope that material progress will make us happy and free -- GDP growth does not bring happiness -- Three unfulfilled promises -- The promise of abundance: the richly set table -- The darker side of abundance -- The promise of high status: 'we can all be aristocrats' -- It is just a seductive mirage -- The promise of plenty: 'all desires can be fulfilled' -- New forms of addiction -- Losing control: the story of the Golem -- What world do we want for ourselves? -- Part II What Is a Good Life? 
505 0 |a 3 Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest for Happiness -- Updating our emotional strategies from the Stone Age -- The science of happiness: new perspective on progress -- Pleasure, joy, happiness, meaning: thousand-faced happiness -- The benefits of happiness -- The right to be unhappy -- Negative feelings and positive feelings are not opposites -- Forced positivity -- Less is more: the pitfalls of maximizing -- 'Maximizers' -- Not an endless peak experience -- Happiness with a thousand faces: aspects for personal investigation -- 4 Sustainable Hedonism 
505 0 |a Resource overuse and the 'global rich' -- Radical hedonists -- The art of enjoying life: ancient hedonism -- Abounding pleasures: the ultra-hedonists -- Moderate pleasures: Epicurus -- Aristotle: the school of 'good' pleasures -- Scrutinizing desires: 'necessary' and 'optional' things -- Basic needs in contemporary social science -- The golden mean of pleasures -- Wisdom in the enjoyment -- Our personal convictions about joy and pleasure -- 5 A Flourishing Life: Living Well and Doing Well -- Happiness according to Aristotle: flourishing life -- Happiness as conscious action 
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