People prefer fulfillment over emptiness of the soul. Fulfillment, sometimes called eudaimonic happiness, or subjective well-being is primarily an emotion, secondarily a thought, and it reaches into ... Read More about Well-being – Fulfillment
Week 09: Preferences (Desire)
Happiness
People prefer happiness over unhappiness. Hedonic happiness is an emotion, experienced as pleasure and enjoyment, which may be fleeting. Functional MRI studies have mapped the neural correlates ... Read More about Happiness
Longevity
People prefer life over death, unless other preferences are unfulfilled to such an extent that living is no longer preferable. To sustain longevity, you have to evolve. [Aries Spears] If you ask ... Read More about Longevity
Pleasure
In itself, people prefer pleasure over displeasure. . . . pleasure is the starting point and goal of living blessedly. For we recognized this as our first innate good. [Epicurus, Letter to ... Read More about Pleasure
Satisfaction
Satisfaction of material needs is preferable to want/deprivation. When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. [attributed to Euripides] May the roof over your ... Read More about Satisfaction
Health
People prefer health over illness. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. [attributed to Mahatma Gandhi] Health is not valued till sickness comes. [attributed to ... Read More about Health
Preferences – Desire
Without desire, we would care about nothing. All values systems rely on valuers, and our preferences. Desires/preferences are to values as cells are to organisms. Pan came out of the woods one ... Read More about Preferences – Desire