The psychology of happiness : a good human life / Samuel S. Franklin
- Author:
- Franklin, Samuel S., 1936-
- Published:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- What is happiness? -- Happiness as fulfillment -- Aristotle's ethics -- Actualization : psychological views -- Finding potentials -- The things we need to be happy : goods, intrinsic motivation, and the golden mean -- Introduction to virtue -- Some of the more important moral virtues -- Virtue and emotion -- Early psychological views of virtue and emotion -- Virtue and emotion : recent psychological views -- The physiological basis of virtue -- Emotional intelligence -- The development of virtue -- Psychological views of virtue development -- The polis -- Contemplation : a different kind of happiness.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780521191302 (hardback : alk. paper), 0521191300 (hardback : alk. paper), 9780521138673 (pbk. : alk. paper), and 0521138671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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