Wellbeing
Wellbeing and Flourishing
community (Private) knowledge (Private) consciousness (Private) Sentience
Key Concepts
- It is not enough to survive, living beings also want to live good lives.
- Science often focuses on competition and survival, there is also pleasure.
- Given that all life has experiences and these subjective experiences is how it sees the world, it is likely that all life shares suffering, please and other feeling and emotions (or #sentience (Private)).
On Pleasure and Aesthetic Appreciation
- Who is likely to have pleasure?
- What forms does it take?
- How can others know it?
- Is there a better term than pleasure (stories, play, fun, learning, contentment, etc.?)
Balcombe, Jonathan P. Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good. London: Macmillan, 2006.
Happiness, Meaning of Life, etc. (Human)
Recommended by Nicholas Christakis
Gilbert, Daniel Todd. Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Knopf, 2009.