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- An accessible guidebook for the emerging field of Happiness Studies
- Offers an account of well-being that can be applied as a formula for increasing the happiness quotient in our lives
- Argues for five fundamental principles as the building blocks of well-being, and explains, clearly and persuasively, how these principles can be enacted intentionally and to great benefit to individuals, families, and communities
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing Happiness Studies
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Applying Happiness Studies
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Back Matter
About this book
In this book, Tal Ben-Shahar introduces a new interdisciplinary field of study that is dedicated to exploring happiness. The study of happiness ought not be left to psychologists alone. Philosophers, theologians, biologists, economists, and scholars from other disciplines have explored ways of attaining happiness, and to do justice to this important pursuit, we ought to listen to their words and experiment with their prescriptions. Not only does the field of happiness studies embrace different disciplines, it also approaches happiness as a multifaceted and multidimensional variable that includes five parts which form the acronym SPIRE:
- Spiritual wellbeing
- Physical wellbeing
- Intellectual wellbeing
- Relational wellbeing
- Emotional wellbeing
This book addresses each of these elements of happiness, explains them, and addresses practical ways for their cultivation.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Attention: Raphael Sagalyn, c/o ICM Partners, New York, USA
Tal Ben-Shahar
About the author
Tal Ben-Shahar is the cofounder of the Happiness Studies Academy and Potentialife. His previous books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Happiness Studies
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Tal Ben-Shahar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64869-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64868-8Published: 05 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64869-5Published: 04 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 118
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Philosophy, Positive Psychology