期刊名称:Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN:0363-1893
出版年度:2015
卷号:37
期号:1
页码:20-25
出版社:Reason Papers
摘要:In The Nature and Value of Happiness, Christine Vitrano defines happiness as a mental state in which people feel satisfaction about how their lives are going (pp. 103-10). 1 As she notes, many competing theories of happiness are either broader or narrower than this. Some theories would permit cases that Vitrano does not count as part of hap piness, and so are broader than her view. Others include additional necessary conditions for happiness that rule o ut cases Vitrano would count as happiness, and so are narrower than her view