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Sustainable Hedonism A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth
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Sustainable Hedonism A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth
ISBN
9781529218008
1529218004
9781529217971
Publication
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( 226 p.)
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Virtuous life: pursuing intellectual and moral virtues.
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Summary
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 disconnection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2021
Contents
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
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
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?
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
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Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost the Earth
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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
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Electronic books.
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