by Henry Oliner | Apr 1, 2017 | Economics
The main problem, though, as I said, is that the insights of poets and taletellers and historians and philosophers from the beginning into what human man happiness actually is have simply been bypassed. “Happiness” viewed as self-reported mood is surely...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 25, 2017 | Economics
Look again at your own ancestors compared with your present condition. You are much better off, and have much more scope to pursue Bildung. Admittedly you don’t own a seventy-five-foot yacht. Too bad. Being an adult person of sense, however, who reads books and...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 27, 2009 | Philosophy
Julia Baird writes an interesting piece in Newsweek “Positively Downbeat- Sometimes Happiness isn’t everything.” She argues that our focus on positive thinking has made us gloomy; to overlook problems, unfairness, incompetence and stupidity. And...
