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Chinese philosophy is based on a cosmology of continual change and harmony between opposing forces. Key concepts include yin and yang, the flow of qi, and maintaining balance. Philosophy aims for practical wisdom focused on everyday life, relationships, and going with the natural flow of things rather than seeking absolute truths. Early Chinese philosophy included Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Mohism, and Logicians, while later traditions included Neo-Confucianism and New Confucianism.
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What role should education play in creating happiness? A keynote presentation given by Patrick Blessinger at the 2013 Felicitology Conference in Khabarovsk, Russia
This document provides an overview of phenomenological perspectives on human emotions. It discusses theories such as the bodily theory of emotions, cognitive theories of emotions, and affect intentionality. It explores perspectives from philosophers like Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others on topics like bodily sensations, social feelings, personal thinking, and spiritual intuition. The document frames emotions within dimensions of existence and explores how emotions are connected to concepts like time, memory, and subjectivity/objectivity. It aims to explicate emotions using phenomenological methods focused on lived experience and prereflective consciousness.
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2. It notes that quality relationships are essential for happiness but can have mixed influences, and that authenticity matters in friendships and happiness.
3. The document advocates adopting an "appreciative" or strengths-based approach to research, policy, and practice focused on promoting happiness rather than just addressing problems. This includes techniques like befriending and appreciative inquiry.
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This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one way to achieve this holistic perspective.
This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one way to achieve this holistic perspective.
This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one technique that can achieve this holistic perspective.
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This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one way to achieve this holistic perspective.
Stress religion and rationality dr. shriniwas kashalikarurjita
This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one technique that can achieve this holistic perspective.
Stress religion and rationality dr. shriniwas kashalikarurjita
This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one way to achieve this holistic perspective.
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This document discusses the relationship between rationality, religion, and defining what is "good". It argues that science and technology focus only on solving physical problems and increasing comfort, but do not address deeper human values. Religions try to answer this but cannot provide perfect guidance. Rationalists and religious people also struggle to understand each other due to differences in how the brain processes information. A holistic approach is needed that uses both rational and religious thinking to define "good" in a way that rejuvenates and inspires people. Repeating names of God (Namasmarn) is presented as one technique that can achieve this holistic perspective.
1. Positive psychology began in the late 20th century as a new discipline that aims to study positive emotions, strengths-based characteristics, and institutions.
2. It was founded by Martin Seligman and draws influences from earlier humanistic psychology but aims to be more scientifically rigorous.
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Heartfulness Magazine - January 2019 (Volume 4, Issue 1)heartfulness
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In recent years, the issue of social justice has become more and more prominent, and it has become one of the most concerned social themes in Chinese society today. In Western countries, the highlight of this issue began in the 1960s and 1970s. On a global scale, the issue of justice in the international community seems to have always plagued our world, as if it were always open during the development of human civilization problem. What is the reason that makes social justice a high concern of contemporary Chinese society? How to solve this problem - if a reasonable solution to social justice has indeed become a major social problem related to whether our society can continue to reform and develop? In my opinion, the highlight of the issue of social justice is by no means the result of the deliberate thematicization of the theoretical circle, but a serious challenge that our society has to face in the continuous development. Therefore, answering the above questions is far more than a theoretical issue. The first is a social practice topic.
The author Gao believes that the appeal of social justice may become a more effective banner and breakthrough for the political system reform at the turn of the century in China. This view stems from the author's revelation from the study of the American progressive movement at the end of the 19th century. When people's thinking is bound by reality, they can transform their perspectives, use history as a mirror, and seek breakthroughs through vertical historical references and horizontal international comparisons. (Gao114). In a news article published in Wired the author points out that Tte Progressive Movement, which took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is an inspiring reference. How to explain the growing problem of social injustice accompanying the rapid socio-economic development in China (Samuels1)
Let us begin with the discussion of the topic of this article from the basic purpose of human society. From this, we can generally understand the basic purpose of human society as the basic value expectation of human beings for organizing society or for society itself. Organizing society and living and developing in a social way is the fundamental symbol of human beings entering the social civilization from the natural state, and even the root of human cultural creation (such as language, art and religion) and civilization progress (such as the creation of tools and social production methods). Prerequisites and conditions have been repeatedly confirmed by archaeological, anthropological and human sociological studies. But how do you organize society? Why do human beings must survive and develop in a social way? It is the premise that we need to be clear first. (Little1)
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This document provides an overview of a psychology course on human happiness. It discusses various philosophical and scientific perspectives on what constitutes happiness, factors that influence happiness such as relationships, health, age, culture and money. It also examines the evolutionary origins of happiness and prosocial behaviors like compassion. Key findings mentioned include that social relationships and work are among the biggest predictors of happiness.
Presented at the International Conference on Identity Studies in Vienna, Austria.
http://socialsciencesandhumanities.com/upcoming-conferences-call-for-papers/international-conference-on-identity-studies/index.html
CHRISTOPHER PETERSON, NANSOOK PARK and MARTINE.P. SELIGMANVinaOconner450
This document summarizes a study that investigated three orientations to happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. It administered surveys measuring life satisfaction and endorsement of the three orientations to 845 adult participants. Each orientation individually predicted life satisfaction. People low on all three orientations reported especially low life satisfaction, pointing to a distinction between a "full life" and an "empty life".
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Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Neil thin happiness anthropology talk canterbury may 2015
1. whole
as a
holistic
Life
empathy
being
externalist
biographical
crosscultural
Canterbury 50th
Anniversary
remembering
motives
enjoyment
narrative
experience
remedial
fun
Buen vivir
interaction
planning
evaluatiing
barometric
Well-being
statistics
enlightenment
doing
social
your life
facts
good
All things
afterlife
DATA
Anthropological
wanting
Neil Thin
scale
numbers
policy
University of Edinburgh
culture
data
graphics
ikigai holism
Life domains
subjectivity
Contributions to
feeling
appreciative
stories
pathology
liking
identity
prudential
flourishing
sympathy
self
virtue
Virtual life
value
ineffable
time
savouring
How happy
welfare
Self-interest
utility
you
schooling
having
PHONE
self
pleasureYES
NO
barometer
evalluation
aspiration
Suma qamana
progress
EXPAND
planning
virtue
luck
surveys
discourses
fieldwork
goods
dignity
betterment
contrast
Self-making
Happiness studies
3. How can happiness research strengthen the
anthropology of selves and lives?
How can anthropological (ethnographic)
approaches strengthen happiness research?
4. 50 years
ago
(roughly)
George Foster (1965) ‘Peasant society and the image of limited good.’
Marshall Sahlins (1966) ‘The original affluent society’.
Langness, Lewis L. (1965) The Life History in Anthropological Science.
Michael Banton (1964) 'Anthropological perspectives in sociology.’
5. Hadley Cantril (1965)
The Pattern of Human
Concerns.
• Pathbreaking 14-country survey of happiness,
based on the ‘self-anchoring’ Cantril ladder
• 11-point scale from ‘the worst possible life for
you’ to ‘the best possible life for you’
• Also in 1965: Bradburn, N.M, and D. Caplovitz
Reports on Happiness.
7. Modern happiness promotion:
a little UK cultural history
• Who first argued that argued that the point
of morality, and hence of governance, was
to achieve the ‘greatest happiness for the
greatest numbers’?
9. John Sinclair’s Statistical
Account of Scotland:
govts should assess the
‘quantum of happiness’
Two approaches to happiness:
Bureaucratic interest in living
standards and socio-dynamics
Biographical interest in
psycho-dynamics and
personal agency
Samuel Smiles and the
‘self-help’ movement:
happiness is mainly
built from the inside out
10. Happiness is not a potato
No mockery in this world ever
sounds to me so hollow as that of
being told to cultivate happiness.
What does such advice mean?
… to be planted in mould, and
tilled with manure
Charlotte Brontë, Villette
13. Public psychometrics: new insights, but
some misleading yet persuasive narratives.
Is there really
an ‘increasing
gap’ between
the economy
and happiness?
14. …or was the ‘gap’ just an artifact of the incommensurable scales?
Source: Stevenson, Betsey, and Justin Wolfers 2013 ‘Subjective well‐being and income: is there any
evidence of satiation?’ Washington, DC: Brookings Institute
15. … and in what meaningful sense can we divide up a ‘pie’
of ‘happiness determinants’?
Source: lots of Sonja Lyubomirsky texts, e.g. Lyubomirsky et al, 2004, 'Achieving sustainable new happiness: Prospects, practices,
and prescriptions.’ in P.A. Linley & A. Joseph (Eds.), Positive psychology in practice. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 127-145'
16. …and some people
really do take
numerophilia too far.
Barbara Fredrickson
and Marcial Losada
claimed to have
found a ‘critical
positivity ratio’ of
‘2.9013’
17. Thin (2012) Social Happiness, chapter
on ‘Assessing happiness’
Do numberised self-reports show real respect for happiness?
Theodore Porter (1995): numbers are ‘the enemy of subjectivity’
David Boyle (2000): counting won’t make us happy
Stephen Jay Gould (1983): it is harmful to reify abstractions for the
purposes of bureaucratic counting and ranking
18. Three parallel trends in humanities
and social sciences since 1960s
• A ‘statistical turn’ in happiness studies
• A ‘narrative turn’ in both humanities and social
sciences
• Public and scholarly interest in how individuals
develop an ‘authentic’ sense of ‘meaning-in-life’
19. Google Scholar (in title) (2015)
anthropology AND happiness 6
sociology AND happiness 30
economics AND happiness 430
psychology AND happiness 340
philosophy AND happiness 220
history AND happiness 153
anthropology AND (euphemistically) health 1,100
anthropology AND religion 510
anthropology AND gender 330
anthropology AND development 1,050
anthropology AND violence 330
anthropology AND suffering 70
23. Surprisingly, there is reliable compliance
in happiness surveys worldwide
Maybe eight, maybe
two
I’m a nine
Which of these most realistically echoes your feelings and self-evaluations?
24. “All things considered, how happy are
you with your life these days?”
You
How happy?
All
things
25.
26.
27. How do we
develop a
sense of self?
How do we
develop an
understanding
of what our
lives are like?
28. A ‘happiness lens’ means adopting appreciative
approaches to research, policy and practice:
good
feelings
whole
lives
How happy are
you? How’s life?
How’s your life going? What’s the story?
29. Being
(having, doing, relating,
identifying, empathising)
Wanting
(hoping, aspiring,
expecting, comparing)
Liking
(enjoying, showing
appreciation)
Savouring
(noticing, remembering,
narrating, sharing,
thanking)
Evaluating
(assessing value of self,
others, and environment –
past, present and future)
Happiness as a process of self-composition
ValenceValue
Virtue
30. Scholars should aim to help
people live better
Two ways of doing this:
Remedial: find trouble, sort it out
Appreciative: learn about how
happiness happens, promote it
31. Minimally acceptable living
Clinical
(remedial,
therapeutic,
medical) policy
and practice
Appreciative
(or ‘positive’)
policy and
practice
Appreciative
research focused on
strengths and
enjoyments or
preventive
maintenance
Pathological or
clinical research
focused on sufferings
and remedies
Preventive
action
Aspirational/appreciative planning and learning
32. n.b. cultural variation in the
meaning, salience, value, and
expresssion of positivity
- e.g. moral disapproval of self-positivity
in Asia, and in some social sciences
- e.g. this-worldly vs afterlife rewards
33. Jeanne Tsai (2014) ‘cultural
shaping of happiness’
• Stanford University crosscultural
psychologist
• ‘ideal affect’ – what people
believe they ought to feel
• ‘happiness’ in general may be
universally valued, but e.g in USA
this means high-arousal, vs China
low-arousal positive emotions
34. Joel Robbins: ‘Beyond
the suffering subject.’
• Since 1990s, anths’ attention has
shifted from the ‘exotic other’ to
the ‘suffering subject’.
• Now, our interest in goodness is
on the rise – value, morality, well-
being, empathy, care, hope etc.
exoticism suffering goodness
35. Malinowski (1922) Argonauts of
the Western Pacific
The goal [of ethnography]…is…to grasp the native’s
point of view…what concerns him most intimately …
[we must try to understand the] subjective desire or
feeling … the substance of their happiness.
36. But I was unable to say what these meant. …it
was very difficult to decide which of the
diagrams was most like the face they were
making because people’s faces move very
quickly.
Mark Haddon (2003) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
38. Don’t neglect self-empathy:
how do socio-cultural
processes help or hinder…
Interdomain coherence (e.g. work-life
harmony)
Biographical coherence (making sense of
expected and unexpected disruptions in
life narratives
39. Nils Bubandt and Ton Otto (2010)
'Anthropology and the predicaments of holism'
Hermeneutic holism = meaning in context
Methodologically, holism risks presupposing
‘bounded, static, homogeneous wholes’
…but might this concern also apply to
psychological holism? Do happiness scholars
presuppose a unified, holistic experience of
happiness?
41. Gordon Mathews (1996) What
Makes Life Worth Living?
• Ikigai – what makes life worth living
• Ittaikan - commitment to group
(communitarianism)
• jiko jitsugen - self-realization
(individualism, creativity)
42. Melania Calestani (2013) An
Anthropological Journey into Well-
Being: Insights from Bolivia
Everyday vs intellectual-romantic discourses of ‘the
good life’ among Aymara people in El Alto:
• Suma jakaña – ‘placenta’: family life, local
spirituality and health
• Suma Qamaña – idealised and less localised
material, economic, and political wellbeing
43. appreciation empathy holism life narrative
Mathews 1996
…Life Worth Living
y y y y
Wallman 1996
Wellbeing …AIDS
n y/n y/n y/n
Adelson 2001
Being Alive Well
y/n y/n y y/n
Lim Khek Gee 2008
Imagining the Good Life
y/n Y Y y/n
Jackson 2011
Life …Limits:
Wellbeing…
n y/n y/n y/n
Calestani 2013
Wellbeing Bolivia
y y y y/n
Fischer 2014
Good Life …Wellbeing
y y y y/n
44. How can happiness research
strengthen the anthropology
of selves and lives?
How can anthropological
(ethnographic) approaches
strengthen happiness research?
•cultural appreciation
•appreciative empathy
•prudential ethnobiography
• Appreciative enquiry
• Respect for ineffability
• Hermeneutic holism