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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

By: Haidt, Jonathan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, Basic Books, 2006Description: 297 pages.ISBN: 0-465-02802-0.Subject(s): happiness | well-being | philosophy | psychologyOnline resources: Author's webpage Summary: This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations -­ to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives. It is a book about how to construct a life of virtue, happiness, fulfillment, and meaning.
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This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations -­ to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives. It is a book about how to construct a life of virtue, happiness, fulfillment, and meaning.

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