NDLI: What Do Happiness Studies Study?

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Author	Griffin, James
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	What do, or should, happiness studies study? Everything to which we refer with the word ‘‘happiness’’ is worth some study. But the study of subjective states covers only part of the ground covered by the word ‘‘happiness’’ and by no means all the ground central to understanding happiness. On the central use of ‘‘happiness,’’ to be happy is to be glad or satisfied or content, which suggests subjectivity, with having a good measure of what is important in life, which suggests objectivity. We find the same suggestion of both subjectivity and objectivity in the list of what enhances the quality of life. There are strong arguments in favour both of the subjectivity of what enhances life and of its objectivity. I argue that neither is right, that the story is more complicated. The conclusion of the story is that there is a list of several non-reducible features that contribute to the quality of a characteristic human life, and that anything that contributes to the quality of any human life will be one or other of these features. But there is a problem. When we speak of the quality of a human life, there may be no one thing we have in mind. Perhaps some of us are not disagreeing with one another over the nature of a ‘‘happy’’ life but speaking of different things.
Starting Page	139
Ending Page	148
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13894978
Journal	Journal of Happiness Studies
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737780
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-12-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	happiness incommensurability incomparability objectivity/subjectivity of values univocity of ‘‘happiness’’ Quality of Life Research Personality & Social Psychology Philosophy Sociology Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences

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