The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Writer

Jonathan Haidt

Language

English

ISBN

9780465003686

Number of pages

357

Publisher

Basic Books

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom can enrich and transform our lives The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations—to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives and illuminate the causes of human flourishing. Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims—like "do unto others as you would have others do unto you," or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"—can enrich and transform our lives.

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