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Happiness Hedonic Treadmills in the Vale of Tears Michael Gracey looks at how philosophers have pursued happiness. Thomas ...

This kind of trade-off appears throughout human life, from career choices to relationships to hobbies. Sometimes we must ...

Happiness Deconstructing Happiness Abdullah Rayhan breaks down ‘happiness’ with Boethius, Kierkegaard & Montaigne. “Do you ...

“Women are capable of education, but they are not made for activities which demand a universal faculty such as the more ...

Happiness The Necessary Ache Tara Daneshmand on regret and the courage to choose. “A mountain begins with the first stone, and a human being – with the first pain.” – Ahma ...

“I have no idea what Aristotle would say.” Peter Singer is perhaps the world’s leading moral philosopher, but he is not pretending to be omniscient. He is world famous for putting Animal Liberation on ...

Fiction Bilbo Theorizes About Wellbeing Eric Comerford overhears Bilbo and Gandalf discussing happiness. After all their ...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), the author of The World as Will and Representation, was a profound metaphysician who also advocated basing ethics upon compassion. He was a great philosopher, but ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible. Non-violence as a policy is based on the moral postulate that the use of force is inherently abhorrent, and further, seeks to link ...