Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth

Front Cover -- Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost The Earth -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures, Tables And Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Is There Anyone Who Does Not Want To Thrive? -- The Challenge: One Planet And A Good Life For All -- Our Desire For Growth And Its Failures -- The 'success Story' We Are Telling Ourselves -- The World As A Marketplace -- (unintended) Consequences Of Economics And Capitalism Today -- Exploring And Experiencing A Thriving Life -- Quest For Happiness -- Values For A Thriving Life Pathways To A Thriving Life: Experiential Learning -- Our Life As A Living Field -- Part I The Challenge -- 1 Unintended Consequences Of Economics As A Science -- Not Rational And Not Egoistic -- Self-fulfilling Prophecy -- The Economist Is Not A Value-free Outsider -- The Responsibility Of Economists -- Not The Recipe For Success -- Beyond The Model: Our Yearning For Pleasure And Freedom -- Hedonism: Pleasure As The Ultimate Value -- Do Desires Drive The World? -- Celebrating Freedom -- The Manifesto Of The Pleasure-seeking Person: The Worldview 2 The Narrative Of Success In Capitalism, And Its Failures -- The Hope That Material Progress Will Make Us Happy And Free -- Gdp Growth Does Not Bring Happiness -- Three Unfulfilled Promises -- The Promise Of Abundance: The Richly Set Table -- The Darker Side Of Abundance -- The Promise Of High Status: 'we Can All Be Aristocrats' -- It Is Just A Seductive Mirage -- The Promise Of Plenty: 'all Desires Can Be Fulfilled' -- New Forms Of Addiction -- Losing Control: The Story Of The Golem -- What World Do We Want For Ourselves? -- Part Ii What Is A Good Life? 3 Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest For Happiness -- Updating Our Emotional Strategies From The Stone Age -- The Science Of Happiness: New Perspective On Progress -- Pleasure, Joy, Happiness, Meaning: Thousand-faced Happiness -- The Benefits Of Happiness -- The Right To Be Unhappy -- Negative Feelings And Positive Feelings Are Not Opposites -- Forced Positivity -- Less Is More: The Pitfalls Of Maximizing -- 'maximizers' -- Not An Endless Peak Experience -- Happiness With A Thousand Faces: Aspects For Personal Investigation -- 4 Sustainable Hedonism Resource Overuse And The 'global Rich' -- Radical Hedonists -- The Art Of Enjoying Life: Ancient Hedonism -- Abounding Pleasures: The Ultra-hedonists -- Moderate Pleasures: Epicurus -- Aristotle: The School Of 'good' Pleasures -- Scrutinizing Desires: 'necessary' And 'optional' Things -- Basic Needs In Contemporary Social Science -- The Golden Mean Of Pleasures -- Wisdom In The Enjoyment -- Our Personal Convictions About Joy And Pleasure -- 5 A Flourishing Life: Living Well And Doing Well -- Happiness According To Aristotle: Flourishing Life -- Happiness As Conscious Action Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Virtuous Life: Pursuing Intellectual And Moral Virtues. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.