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Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Having Children, Happiness and Love

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In a posting in practical ethics   David Edmonds suggests that having children might make people less happy. Simply bringing children into t...
Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Why I'm not a Stoic

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I admire fortitude, detachment and many other stoic virtues but believe full blown stoicism is damaging. Let us accept that for someone livi...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Meaning, Love and Happiness

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In this posting I want to examine the relationship between meaning, love and happiness. Most psychologists seem to believe that there is ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Suicide, Happiness and Meaning

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The death of Robin Williams highlighted the prevalence of suicide in our society. In this posting I want to consider ways of reducing thi...
Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Meaning and Happiness

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In a recent posting in practical ethics Hannah Maslen considers happiness meaning and well-being . Let us accept that happiness and meani...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Friendship, Love and Happiness

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Positive psychologists such as Haidt and Seligman stress the importance of association and friendship in making us happy. Lonely people ar...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Does our Concept of Happiness change as we Age?

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It is generally accepted that happiness is important in our lives. However, in philosophy there is a great deal of disagreement about exa...