Sustainable Hedonism A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth.
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Bristol University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost the Earth
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Is There Anyone Who Does Not Want to Thrive?
- The challenge: one planet and a good life for all
- Our desire for growth and its failures
- The 'success story' we are telling ourselves
- The world as a marketplace
- (Unintended) consequences of economics and capitalism today
- Exploring and experiencing a thriving life
- Quest for happiness
- Values for a thriving life
- Pathways to a thriving life: experiential learning
- Our life as a living field
- Part I The Challenge
- 1 Unintended Consequences of Economics as a Science
- Not rational and not egoistic
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- The economist is not a value-free outsider
- The responsibility of economists
- Not the recipe for success
- Beyond the model: our yearning for pleasure and freedom
- Hedonism: pleasure as the ultimate value
- Do desires drive the world?
- Celebrating freedom
- The manifesto of the pleasure-seeking person: the worldview
- 2 The Narrative of Success in Capitalism, and Its Failures
- The hope that material progress will make us happy and free
- GDP growth does not bring happiness
- Three unfulfilled promises
- The promise of abundance: the richly set table
- The darker side of abundance
- The promise of high status: 'we can all be aristocrats'
- It is just a seductive mirage
- The promise of plenty: 'all desires can be fulfilled'
- New forms of addiction
- Losing control: the story of the Golem
- What world do we want for ourselves?
- Part II What Is a Good Life?
- 3 Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest for Happiness
- Updating our emotional strategies from the Stone Age
- The science of happiness: new perspective on progress
- Pleasure, joy, happiness, meaning: thousand-faced happiness
- The benefits of happiness
- The right to be unhappy
- Negative feelings and positive feelings are not opposites
- Forced positivity
- Less is more: the pitfalls of maximizing
- 'Maximizers'
- Not an endless peak experience
- Happiness with a thousand faces: aspects for personal investigation
- 4 Sustainable Hedonism
- Resource overuse and the 'global rich'
- Radical hedonists
- The art of enjoying life: ancient hedonism
- Abounding pleasures: the ultra-hedonists
- Moderate pleasures: Epicurus
- Aristotle: the school of 'good' pleasures
- Scrutinizing desires: 'necessary' and 'optional' things
- Basic needs in contemporary social science
- The golden mean of pleasures
- Wisdom in the enjoyment
- Our personal convictions about joy and pleasure
- 5 A Flourishing Life: Living Well and Doing Well
- Happiness according to Aristotle: flourishing life
- Happiness as conscious action
