Happiness
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In the US, GNP has risen sharply in the past 40 years, but
happiness
has not.
Third,
happiness
is achieved through a balanced approach to life by both individuals and societies.
Fourth, global capitalism presents many direct threats to
happiness.
Fifth, to promote happiness, we must identify the many factors other than GNP that can raise or lower society’s well-being.
The search for
happiness
should not be confined to the beautiful mountain kingdom of Bhutan.
In his inauguration speech, American President Barack Obama said, “The time has come to set aside childish things” and instead to choose the noble idea that “all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”
Could it help us to appreciate that many things are more central to our
happiness
than our ability to spend money on fashion, expensive watches, and fine dining?
And yet
happiness
about the headline numbers should not be allowed to obscure opportunities to channel these funds more effectively.
For the US, it was “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Unlike dictatorship, democracy promises citizens a vote, not
happiness.
Reprogenetics will enable prospective parents to give their children genes that they themselves do not carry, thereby increasing their offspring's chances for health, longevity, happiness, and success - an appalling prospect for many bioethicists.
If reprogenetics is used to increase chances of health,
happiness
and success, what could be wrong with it?
The only alternative to this bleak possibility seems remote today and may never be viable: a single global state in which all children are provided with the same genetic enhancements and the same opportunities for health, happiness, and success.
Not only is it becoming increasingly obvious that GDP-directed development is ecologically unsustainable; survey research shows that it is no longer improving well-being and
happiness
in developed countries.
Human
happiness
and economic well-being are also being affected by climate change, which may be contributing to what could turn out to be a third consecutive year of drought in sub-Saharan Africa – and this amid growing food-security concerns in a world with one billion underfed people.
According to early Confucian thinkers, a key task for rulers is to strive to improve a peoples’ happiness, which is itself grounded in a moral way of life.
In February 2010, at “Spring Festival” – one of China’s biggest holidays, marked by family reunions – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that the government should help people live with dignity and
happiness.
Today, it is impossible to tell what impact and how much influence Chinese traditional political thought – the traditional concern with moral duty, happiness, and honor – will have on China’s foreign policy.
For some, American identity is based on red-blooded capitalist enterprise and rugged individualism, unhindered by excessive government regulation in the pursuit of material
happiness.
Rather than undermining the pursuit of social reasoning, Arrow’s deeply challenging impossibility theorem, and the large volume of literature that it has inspired, has immensely strengthened our ability to think rationally about the collective decision-making on which our survival and
happiness
depend.
You who ask me to give up our jihad,and to live a life of comfort and happiness,Don’t waste your breath.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of
happiness
indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
The meeting was called to catalyze mounting efforts to create a new economic paradigm grounded in sustainability and dedicated to human well-being, building on Bhutan’s innovative approach, which aims not for GDP growth, but for gains in gross national
happiness
(GNH).
Socio-emotional skills, such as perseverance and determination, are the most positively correlated with labor-market participation, physical health, and
happiness.
But the world currently faces a growing technological divide, with implications for equality, liberty, and the right to pursue
happiness
that are no less momentous than the racial divide against which King preached.
But the same research has found that the people living in those countries consistently experience significantly increased
happiness
during and after the events.
PRINCETON – The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting “gross national happiness” instead of economic growth.
The two are related: more tourists might boost the economy, but they would damage Bhutan’s environment and culture, and so reduce
happiness
in the long run.
When I first heard of Bhutan’s goal of maximizing its people’s happiness, I wondered if it really meant anything in practice, or was just another political slogan.
Instead, his address was a thoughtful review of the key issues involved in promoting
happiness
as a national policy.
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