Tag: Happiness

June 30, 2023

Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment

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English | ISBN: 1474252052 | 2017 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment considers the consequences of a hedonistic and well-being centred model of student education as one of the goals of higher education and proposes an alternative goal for higher education. In a globalised consumer society where the anxiety for an identity leads to the fear of not reaching the standard, Paul Gibbs shows how anxiety can be harnessed to secure contentment with one’s own future without the fear of consumer-induced emptiness. He conceptualises higher education in a counter-valued way to the current dominant discourse of higher education institutions and educational policy while placing students at the centre of their own educational activity. In doing so, Gibbs proposes contentment as a guiding principle of higher education.

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June 29, 2023

Against Happiness

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Free Download Owen Flanagan, "Against Happiness"
English | ISBN: 0231209487 | 2023 | 360 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The "happiness agenda" is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.

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June 28, 2023

Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108486738 | 173 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Aristotle thinks that happiness is an activity – it consists in doing something – rather than a feeling. It is the best activity of which humans are capable and is spread out over the course of a life. But what kind of activity is it? Some of his remarks indicate that it is a single best kind of activity, intellectual contemplation. Other evidence suggests that it is an overarching activity that has various virtuous activities, ethical and intellectual, as parts. Numerous interpreters have sharply disagreed about Aristotle’s answers to such questions. In this book, Bryan Reece offers a fundamentally new approach to determining what kind of activity Aristotle thinks happiness is, one that challenges widespread assumptions that have until now prevented a dialectically satisfactory interpretation. His approach displays the boldness and systematicity of Aristotle’s practical philosophy.

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June 27, 2023

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Britain and the American Dream [Audiobook]

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Free Download Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C8WJ9355 | 2023 | 17 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 512 MB
Author: Peter Moore
Narrator: John Lee
The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down-and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America.

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June 27, 2023

Spousal Prayer A Way to Marital Happiness

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Free Download Spousal Prayer: A Way to Marital Happiness By James Keating
2013 | 54 Pages | ISBN: 0984379282 | EPUB | 1 MB
Deacon James Keating’s newest book, Spousal Prayer: A Way to Marital Happiness affirms that the sharing of hearts is a necessary commitment in both marriage and prayer. If we can learn what the key elements to sharing the heart are and equally what the key elements to receiving the heart of another are, then we will know the greatest of intimacy in both prayer and marriage. The mingling of the love of spouse with and in the love of God is and has always been the foundation for a life of peace, creativity, and vibrancy, not to mention sanctity. In fact, we cannot even understand what marriage is unless we look at how Christ loved His Bride, the Church, till the end (Jn 13:1). For the baptized, Christ has joined His love for the Church to the Sacrament of Marriage and Marriage, to His love for the Church. Each couple is called to allow Jesus to bring them into this great love of His. The couple is not supposed to do all the "work" of love; they are called to let Jesus gift them with His

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June 25, 2023

Happiness Mein spiritueller Weg

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Deutsch | 2020 | ISBN: 3426675978 | 242 Seiten | EPUB | 2 MB
Tina Turner gehört mit über 200 Mio. verkauften Tonträgern zu den erfolgreichsten Sängerinnen. Doch ihr Leben kannte nicht nur die Höhen, sondern auch die Tiefen. Erstmals berichtet Tina Turner in dieser spirituellen Autobiografie, was ihr geholfen hat, diese oft sehr schwierigen Situationen zu meistern.

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