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The Field of Happiness Studies

Religious Perspectives

Interfaith Summit On Happiness: Understanding And Promoting Happiness In Today's Society

What do Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam teach us about the concept of happiness? What do these ancient traditions hold in common about this often elusive state of being, and what are their greatest points of difference? How do they define happiness? Is happiness the purpose of life, or is it a reward only available after life?
http://www.dalailama.emory.edu/2010/happiness.html 


Philosophical Perspectives
Al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Alchemy of Happiness
Abu Hamed Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111) was a Persian Islamic philosopher
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/tah/index.htm

The Philosophy of happiness

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/
Haybron, Dan, "Happiness", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/happiness/>.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_happiness

Buddhist view of happiness

http://www.cloudwater.org/uploads/text%20files/A%20Buddhist%20View%20of%20Happiness.pdf
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tobsj/articles/V004/31TOBSJ.pdf
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/bhutan-conference-2011/sitefiles/Lam%20Goembo%20Dorji.pdf

Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics (350BCE)

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html
happiness  is the only thing that humans desire for its own sake
Mortimer J. Adler, Aristotle's Ethics: The Theory of Happiness
https://www.utpa.edu/dept/curr_ins/faculty_folders/tevis_m/docs/TheoryOfHappiness.pdf
http://www.academia.edu/514238/Aristotles_Definition_of_Eudaimonia
eudaimonia is “rational activity of the soul in accordance with virtue in a completelife. It plays the same role in both his ethical theory and his political theory as the end of all action, which in each can be attained through virtue.”
“Happiness in Ancient Philosophy”
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/e-series/volumes/volume_3/03_Sihvola_2008_3.pdf

Patañjali, The Yoga Sūtras

http://yogasutras.us/; http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm 
Samadhi refers to a blissful state where the yogi is absorbed into the One

Utilitarians and the greatest happiness principle

“happiness, private happiness, is the proper or ultimate end of all our actions…” John Gay, Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality (1731)
Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
http://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1861)
http://www.utilitarianism.com/jsmill.htm

Mencius

http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/mencius/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mencius/
http://nothingistic.org/library/mencius/



Economic Perspectives
Anielski, Mark (2007). The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth. Canada: New Society Publishers.
Bruni, Luigino; Pier Luigi Porta (2005). Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis. Ocford, Oxford University Press.
Bruni, Luigino; Pier Luigi Porta, ed. (2008). Handbook On the Economics Of Happiness.
Blanchflower, David G. (2008) : Happiness economics, NBER Reporter
Online, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Mass., Iss. 2, pp. 7-10, http://hdl.handle.net/10419/61912



Psychological Perspectives
Ryan, Richard C. and Edward L. Deci (2001) On Happiness And Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being, Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 52, 2001: 141-166
Kahneman, Daniel; Ed Diener (2003). Well-being: the foundations of hedonic psychology

Journal of Happiness Studies
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/wellbeing+%26+quality-of-life/journal/10902


Constitutional Perspectives
Bhutan
Press articles
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2126639,00.html
http://www.uta.edu/faculty/story/DataSources/2012,10,22,GrossNationalHappinessIndex.pdf
The U.N. Happiness Project, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/opinion/the-un-happiness-project.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.economist.com/node/3445119
http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/Attachments/ResearchAttachment/Report%20-%20Melissa%20%2813%20Aug%2008%29.pdf
http://www.india.youth-leader.org/2011/09/bhutan-in-pursuit-of-gross-national-happiness/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/01/bhutan-wealth-happiness-counts
GNH - http://sonamd55.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/the-pursuit-of-happiness-issues-facing-bhutanese-youths-and-the-challenge-posed-to-gross-national-happiness/
Videos
TEDxHalifax - Silver Donald Cameron - Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLJwYW6-Ao
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com/stories/liambartlett/574370/the-pursuit-of-happiness
Other articles
http://marleegeog110.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/bhutans-government-on-the-pursuit-of-happiness/
http://www.campbellkeegan.com/images/MRS%202007%20Conference%20Pursuit%20of%20Happiness%20WARC%20paper.pdf
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/bhutan-conference-2011/sitefiles/Peter%20Singer%20-%20Pursuit%20of%20Happiness.pdf

US
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"
The Surprising Origins and Meaning of the “Pursuit of Happiness”, http://hnn.us/articles/46460.html


Educational Perspectives
Seligman, M.E.P. (2004). Can Happiness be Taught?. Daedalus journal, Spring 2004.
Boniwell, I. & Ryan, L. (2012). Personal well-being: Lessons for secondary schools,
positive psychology in action for 11 to 14 year olds. New York: Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education.
Huebner, & M. Furlong. (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology in schools. New York: Routledge, 463-476.
Gilman, R., Huebner, E., & Furlong, M. (2009) (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology in schools. New York: Routledge.
O’Brien, C. (2011). “Sustainable happiness and education”. InK. Bartels & K. Parker,
(Eds.),Teaching sustainability, teaching sustainably, Virginia:
Stylus Publishing.
O’Brien, C. (2011). Sustainable happiness for teachers and students,  Canadian Teacher  Magazine, November/December, 18-19.
Kelsey, E. and O’Brien, C. (2011). Sustainable happiness. Green Teacher, 93, 3-7.
O’Brien, C. (2010).Sustainability, happiness and education. Journal of Sustainability Education, (1).

Ecological/Sustainability Perspectives
Abdallah S.,Thompson, S., Michaelson, J., Marks, N. & Steuer, N. (2009).  The
(un)Happy Planet Index: Why good lives don’t have to cost the earth. London: nef.
Abdallah S., Michaelson, J., Shah, S., Stoll, L. & Marks, N. (2012).  The happy planet  index  2012: A global index of sustainable well-being. London: nef.
Anielski, M. (2007). The language of wealth and economics.  In Economics of happiness: Building genuine wealth. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers.
United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability (2012). Resilient people, resilient planet: A future worth choosing, Overview. New York: United Nations. http://www.un.org/gsp/report
World Commission on Environment and Development. (1987). Our common future.
Toronto: Oxford University Press.


Development Perspectives


General Resources

Reference

David, Susan, Ilona Boniwell, and Amanda Conley Ayers (2012) Oxford Handbook of Happiness . Oxford, Oxford University Press.

General

Darrin M. McMahon Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006).
Carol Graham (2010), Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Klein, Stefan (2006) The Science of Happiness, Marlowe

Videos

TED Studies: Psychology - Understanding Happiness
http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-814228.html

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/philosophy-guide-to-happiness/
This six part series on philosophy is presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life.

http://www.ted.com/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_habits_of_happiness.html

Web Resources

Sustainable happiness: www.sustainablehappiness.ca
Foster/Hicks: http://fosterhicks.com/
Happy Planet Index: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/
Gross National Happiness: http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/
Wellbeing and Happiness; Defining a New Economic Paradigm:
http://www.2apr.gov.bt/
Green Communities Canada: http://www.saferoutestoschool.ca/oldsite/schooltravel.html
Clean Air Champions:
http://www.cleanairchampions.ca/
The Barefoot College: http://www.barefootcollege.org/default.asp
Sustainable Seattle: http://www.sustainableseattle.org/
Learning for a Sustainable Future: http://www.lsflst.ca/
Action for Happiness: http://www.actionforhappiness.org/
Kelsy and Company: http://elinkelseyandcompany.com/
(hope and the environment)
Green Schools
http://seedsfoundation.ca//index.asp?pid=9
Green School Bali
http://www.greenschool.org/
Collaborative Consumption
http://collaborativeconsumption.com/

Prepared by Michael A. Peters