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The good life: Wellbeing and the new science of altruism, selfishness and immorality. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. https:// https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315849393. Abstract. This book explores some of the dilemmas at the heart of being human.
Dec 18, 2014 · In The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being, Michael A. Bishop marries these complementary investigations, and the result is a powerful, new framework for understanding well-being and the good life.
Jul 8, 2014 · Abstract. The book’s goal is to justify morality by arguing both that it is harmful to oneself to immorally harm others, and that living as happily as possible is achieved by living as virtuously as possible.
- Paul Bloomfield
Dec 18, 2014 · Abstract. This chapter presents a provisional account of Positive Causal Networks (PCNs). There exist networks of causally interrelated feelings, emotions, attitudes, traits, and accomplishments. Such a causal network is positive if it consists of a relatively high number of valued states and states with a positive hedonic tone.
Jan 2, 2015 · In The Good Life, Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations and proposes a powerful, new theory for understanding well-being. The network theory holds that to have well-being is to be "stuck" in a self-perpetuating cycle of positive emotions, attitudes, traits and accomplishments.
- Michael Bishop
The Good Life represents a new, inclusive approach to the study of well-being, an approach committed to the proposition that discovering the nature of well-being requires the knowledge and...
Abstract. Philosophers and social critics have promoted different conceptions of the good human life for some 2000 years. Such philosophical conceptions always included, or relied entirely on models of good psychological functioning or mental health. In contrast, psychologists have only recently entered the debate about the Good Life.
