Freedom and Flourishing

As I noted in the title of this blog my aim here is to explore the links between freedom (liberty) and human flourishing. I decided when I s...

I know that just about everyone who has read this far will think this post has to be about masochism, or schadenfreude. What is the definit...

Some new evidence that spending money on others promotes happiness was recently published in ‘Science’ (Elizabeth Dunn, Lara Aknin and Micha...

I ended my last post ( here ) wondering how I would feel after I had finished reading Daniel Gilbert’s book, “Stumbling on happiness”. In pa...