Franklin, Samuel S., 1936-

The psychology of happiness : a good human life / Samuel S. Franklin. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xii, 179 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is happiness? -- Happiness as fulfillment -- Aristotle's ethics -- Actualization : psychological views -- Finding potentials -- The things we need to be happy : goods, intrinsic motivation, and the golden mean -- Introduction to virtue -- Some of the more important moral virtues -- Virtue and emotion -- Early psychological views of virtue and emotion -- Virtue and emotion : recent psychological views -- The physiological basis of virtue -- Emotional intelligence -- The development of virtue -- Psychological views of virtue development -- The polis -- Contemplation : a different kind of happiness.

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