The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being

by Michael A. Bishop

Book Overview

Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is. In The Good Life, Michael Bishop brings together these complementary investigations and proposes a powerful, new theory for understanding well-being.

The network theory holds that to have well-being is to be "stuck" in a self-perpetuating cycle of positive emotions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190603801
• ISBN13: 9780190603809
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"