《The Pursuit of Unhappiness》是2008年OUP Oxford出版的圖書，作者是Daniel M. Haybron。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Pursuit of Unhappiness
- 作者：Daniel M. Haybron
- 出版社：OUP Oxford
- 出版時間：2008年
- 頁數：376 頁
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9780199545988
內容簡介
The pursuit of happiness is a defining theme of the modern era. But what if people aren't very good at it? This and related questions are explored in this book, the first comprehensive philosophical treatment of happiness in the contemporary psychological sense. In these pages, Dan Haybron argues that people are probably less effective at judging, and promoting, their own welfare than common belief has it. For the psychological dimensions of well-being, particularly our emotional lives, are far richer and more complex than we tend to realize. Knowing one's own interests is no trivial matter. As well, we tend to make a variety of systematic errors in the pursuit of happiness. We may need, then, to rethink traditional assumptions about human nature, the good life, and the good society.
Thoroughly engaged with both philosophical and scientific work on happiness and well-being, this book will be a definitive resource for philosophers, social scientists, policymakers, and other students of human well-being.
