Modern society often defines happiness through consumerism and quantifiable metrics. These narrow views, amplified by digital ...

The happiness sciences see it as something you can calculate and quantify. They developed a Happiness Index and the World Happiness Report. These basically measure happiness as satisfaction, with ...

Excerpted with permission from A Theory of Happiness: Lessons from a 100-year-old Korean Philosopher, Kim Hyung Seok, ...

Having co-taught a course on The Psychology and the Philosophy of Happiness for a few years, the differences between the two disciplines and the approaches they take have become clearer to me.

Facing death, he contemplated life and the dilemmas it presents to a self-aware human being. The result, The Consolation of Philosophy, was completed in 524 c.e., and a fine translation by David ...