2012
Greater happiness for a greater number: Is that possible? If so how? (Arabic)
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What is the final goal of public policy? Jeremy Bentham (1789) would say: greater happiness for a greater number. He thought of happiness as subjective enjoyment of life; in his words as “the sum of pleasures and pains”. In his time, the happiness of the great number could not be measured and it was therefore difficult to asses how happiness can be furthered and whether attempts to do so were successful or not. Hence happiness remained a subject of philosophical speculation. Today we can do better. Social scientists have found that happiness can be measured using questions about life-satisfaction and have applied such questions in large scale surveys of the general population. The results of this research are gathered in the World Database of Happiness (Veenhoven 2007).
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Veenhoven, R., & Samuel, E. (2012). Greater happiness for a greater number: Is that possible? If so how? (Arabic). In World Database of Happiness. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/38259 |
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