Inglese 13-14

Lezioni 18-20

• Lezioni 18-1924/3/14

Three theories (from SEP)

• Hedonists identify happiness with the individual's balance of pleasant over unpleasant experience (Sen, Kanheman)

• Life satisfaction theories identify happiness with having a favorable attitude toward one's life as a whole. This basic schema can be filled out in a variety of ways, but typically involves some sort of global judgment: an endorsement or affirmation of one's life as a whole (Nozick)

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• the emotional state view, departs from hedonism in a different way: instead of identifying happiness with pleasant experience, it identifies happiness with an agent's emotional condition as a whole.[7] This includes nonexperiential aspects of emotions and moods (or perhaps just moods), and excludes pleasures that don't directly involve the individual's emotional state. It might also include a person's propensity for experiencing various moods, which can vary over time. Happiness on such a view is more nearly the opposite of depression or anxiety—a broad psychological condition—whereas hedonistic happiness is simply opposed to unpleasantness. (Haybron)

Nozick on happiness

• p. 108 3 types of happiness emotion:• 1) happy that s.t. is the case• 2) feeling your life is good now• 3) being satisfied with your life as a whole• P. 114: 4) happiness as having a happy mood• READ p. 108 a• p. 108 a, b• p. 109 a

happy that s.t. is the case

• p. 108 b

feeling your life is good now

• p. 108 c• p. 109 a

being satisfied with your life as a whole

• pp. 110-111 a• p. 111 a: again the importance of the

connection with reality• 112 a• 113 a• 113 b

• Lezione 20– 25/3/14

• Conferenza di N. L. Oaklander,"Temporal phenomenology and the ontology of time"– Venerdì 9 Maggio ore 15

happiness as having a happy mood

• p. 114 a

secret of happiness?

• 114 b• 115 a, b, c