The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt

• ISBN13: 9780465028023
• ISBN10: 0465028020
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: BASIC BOOK

Summary

This 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jonathan Haidt is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. His research examines the emotional basis of morality and the ways that morality varies across cultures, including the cultures of liberals and conservatives. He has been active in the positive psychology movement since 1999, and in 2001 he was awarded the Templeton Prize in Positive Psychology. He has received four awards for his teaching, including the 2004 Outstanding Faculty Award conferred by the Governor of the State of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Too Much Wisdom	ix
1 The Divided Self	1
2 Changing Your Mind	23
3 Reciprocity with a Vengeance	45
4 The Faults of Others	59
5 The Pursuit of Happiness	81
6 Love and Attachments	107
7 The Uses of Adversity	135
8 The Felicity of Virtue	155
9 Divinity With or Without God	181
10 Happiness Comes from Between	213
11 Conclusion: On Balance	241
Acknowledgments	245
Notes	247
References	265
Index	291