Arts-of-living
2006-01-11
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The term 'art-of-living' refers to capabilities for leading a good life. Since there are different views on what a good life is, there could also be a difference in the capabilities called for. In this paper I distinguish two main views on the good life: the 'virtuous' life and the 'enjoyable' life and describe variants of each. I explore what competencies are required for living such lives and conclude that these differ indeed. So there are different arts of living. The set of capabilities required for leading a happy life can be identified by means of empirical research. This capability-profile comes close to the notion of ‘positive mental health’.
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- happiness
- capability
- skill
- art-of-living
- veenhoven
- arts-of-living
- health
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- happiness studies
- ability
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- difference
- society
- pleasure
- world
- variant
- jahoda
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