PSY324H5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Eudaimonia, Implicit-Association Test, Personal Development
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Science of wellbeing| winter 2017: what is well-being: a brief history, philosophical roots. Socrates" question: (cid:498)(ow ought one to live? (cid:499) Deals with issues of morality as well as eudaimonia (human flourishing), happiness, welfare. A state of pleasure: what is well-being: a brief history, philosophical roots. No, mental states are a part of well-being. Depends on what are life is actually like, not just what it seems like to us. Most ancient schools of philosophy proposed that a good life is, in part a pleasant (happy) one. Plato: only the virtuous life is truly pleasant. Epicureans: only some pleasures, e. g. the (cid:498)static(cid:499) pleasures of tranquility or ataraxia. Stoics: virtue as the sole good, pleasure and pain were (cid:498)indifferents(cid:499) People know what"s best for them and tend to act rationally to promote their interests. Crisp"s (cid:523)1997(cid:524) (aydn and the oyster (cid:498)suppose an oyster can have pleasant experiences (of low level and quality).
