Fulfillment, sometimes called eudaimonic happiness, or subjective well-being is primarily an emotion, secondarily a thought, and it reaches into the domain of action. It is distinguished from ... Read More about Fulfillment
Week 09: Preferences (Desire)
Happiness
Hedonic happiness is an emotion, experienced as pleasure and enjoyment, which may be fleeting. Functional MRI studies have mapped the neural correlates hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. Generosity ... Read More about Happiness
Longevity
Longevity encompasses all our preferences in the dimension of time. Often people say that they would not care to live to an unusually old age; yet generally when people reach an advanced age, they ... Read More about Longevity
Pleasure
". . . pleasure is the starting point and goal of living blessedly. For we recognized this as our first innate good." [Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus.] "It is impossible to live a pleasant life ... Read More about Pleasure
Satisfaction
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. [Euripides] God comes to the hungry in the form of food. [Mahandas Gandhi] May the roof over your head always be ... Read More about Satisfaction
Health
Health is what allows living organisms to function and enjoy life. itis not amenable to analysis along the domains of Being. Not-unpleasant sensations may accompany it but it is not a sensation. It is ... Read More about Health
Preferences – Desire
Pan came out of the woods one day,– / His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, / The gray of the moss of walls were they,– / And stood in the sun and looked his fill / At wooded valley and wooded ... Read More about Preferences – Desire