Finding happiness and the meaning of life, tasks that motivated the work of philosophy in its origins, are now the subject of intense and exciting research in the field of positive psychology. Jonathan Haidt has accepted the major challenge of addressing and answering these questions through a method that combines healthy eclecticism, expository brilliance and scientific rigor. The Happiness Hypothesis is based on Ten Great Ideas that Haidt found in the ancient wisdom texts of three great areas of classical thought: India ...
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Finding happiness and the meaning of life, tasks that motivated the work of philosophy in its origins, are now the subject of intense and exciting research in the field of positive psychology. Jonathan Haidt has accepted the major challenge of addressing and answering these questions through a method that combines healthy eclecticism, expository brilliance and scientific rigor. The Happiness Hypothesis is based on Ten Great Ideas that Haidt found in the ancient wisdom texts of three great areas of classical thought: India (for example, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita or the proverbs of Buddha), China (the Analects of Confucius, the Tao te Ching or the writings of Mencius) and the Mediterranean cultures (the Old and New Testament, the Greek and Latin philosophers, the Koran). Chapter by chapter Haidt unpacks each of these classical ideas discovered by various civilizations, contrasting them with the findings of contemporary research. The result is an enriching self-help guide, full of freshness and intelligence, which clearly shows the steps to follow on our way to happiness.
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