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Stanley Lebergott maintains that the average consumer has behaved more reasonably than many distinguished critics of "materialism" have suggested.

He sees consumers seeking to make an uncertain and often cruel world into a pleasanter and more convenient place--and, for the most part, succeeding. With refreshing common sense, he reminds. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities.

Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends.

Nausherwan Hasan, a professional engineer who grew up in Pakistan before immigrating to the United States of America, recalls his journey from the East to the West.

From an early age, he learned how to deal with challenges when his family was forced to migrate to Pakistan following the partition of India in —a history he revisits in this autobiography. His father had to adjust to a new reality but met it head on with hard work and faith. Do you want to live happier for the rest of your life? Who wouldn't!

Pursuing Happiness will be the last book you'll read to get the secret of living a happier life no matter what is going on around you. The works by Bentham and Mill collected in this volume show the creation and development of a system of ethics that has had an enduring influence on moral philosophy and legislative policy. The third edition of this successful textbook introduces students to behavioral economics. It offers a critical examination of the latest literature, research, developments and debates in the field by discussing topics such as evolutionary psychology and neuroscience.

Contains a wealth of case studies, examples and review questions. Reveals small but significant actions people can take to lead happier lives, offering reflections on such topics as family, relationships, work, school, sports, emotions, and experiences.

Your twenties are your defining decade, the time in which you are setting the course for the rest of your life it. You don't want to look back later and realize you ended up somewhere you never intended to go in the first place. How do you block out all the lies, half-truths, and "supposed-to's" constantly assaulting you from articles, social media posts, and well-meaning friends and family?

How do you find something real, something true, something infused with purpose and meaning? On a beautiful Spring morning in Jonesport Maine, Captain Jack Harper of Harper Industries walks into Moby s restaurant for his morning cup of Moby s jo, unsuspecting that it would be the beginning of a life change, not only for him, but for his community and quite possibly the country. Captain Jack had been a man of integrity and honor his entire life; a man of service to his community. Little did he know that his community would be asking him to be a man of service for the entire nation.

In the quiet of the morning, as the locals debated politics and listened to the typical rhetoric of the incumbent and presidential contenders, a stranger to the town was sitting in the corner taking it all in. As the locals began talking about what life would be like under a presidency of Captain Jack, the stranger became more intrigued about who this Captain Jack character might be.

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His fellow Englishman Adam Smith, before he wrote his economic magnum opus The Wealth of Nations, wrote a treatise on morality in which he argued that the only purpose for humanity that fits with the concept of a benevolent Creator is the pursuit of happiness.

Darnton, Robert. The Wilson Quarterly And despite the persistence of the doctrines of original sin and total depravity, many Catholics jumped on board too. Sermons, books, and speeches on the subject abounded. Clearly, human beings deserved to be happy. The question was how could felicity on earth best be achieved. Eighteenth- century authors sought to answer this question in unprecedented numbers. No previous age, in fact, wrote so much on the subject or so often.

It was a world obsessed with the pursuit of happiness. Through salons, upper class French women dedicated themselves to their own education and to the propagation of Enlightenment philosophy. In England, women like Moll King ran their own coffee houses and hosted debates and lectures. Not only did some major debating societies allow women, but about the time of the American Revolution, there were four women-only debating societies in England.

Some also contributed directly to the discussion with published works. Knapton The first edition was printed in More than liberty, more than security, more than prosperity, the founders agreed that governments existed for the happiness of the people they governed, and that their worth was directly tied to their ability to facilitate that happiness.

Liberty was certainly important to them, as the ubiquity of the term in their writings and speeches indicates. Yet it was happiness, not liberty that they constantly cited as the very purpose of government. This view was far from unique to this one influential founder — in fact, it was virtually universal among the founding generation. It remained untouched from first to final draft. Alexander Hamilton disagreed with Jefferson on nearly everything possible about what America should be, from the need for a standing army and a national debt to prospective allies to the division of power between the national and state governments.

The arguments between these two intellectual powerhouses in the first presidential cabinet must have exhausted even the even-keeled and battle-tested President Washington, who wrote to both of them like a frustrated father trying to settle a feud between petulant children. In a letter during the revolutionary war, he grounded his support for the establishment of an elected Republic in his belief that the people under such a government were the most likely to be happy.

In another letter, he says it is justice. Upon winning independence and disbanding the army, he sent a circular letter to the governors of all the states — a letter about happiness that gushed with happiness. IV, July 10 The first was in a letter to Mercy Warren, th January 8 He reiterated the Founding Assumption in the concluding paragraph of his inaugural address, noting with pride that Americans had decided upon a form of government that would advance happiness.

In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, he warned that the infighting between Jefferson and his opponents was a threat to the happiness of the United States. In a letter to Henry Lee, he expressed fear that the insurrection of the times threatened to destroy American happiness. Though a slave owner, and the head of a government that mainly enfranchised propertied white males, the first president was also of a mind that the felicity protected by the government be extended well beyond that small circle.

Here [in America] everything is in a plastic state. This was to be a global happiness revolution. Political theorist and statesman James Madison enthusiastically agreed with a global happiness revolution. He said of the American people that their glory was in respecting past views and the views of other nations while still not bowing to them over their own good sense, self-knowledge and experience.

Madison was known as the Father of the Constitution and was the driving force behind the Bill of Rights. In arguing for the adoption of the Constitution in Federalist Paper No. This shared belief may be what kept the country from tearing itself apart, and is remarkable given the deep conflicts between supporters of the new Constitution Federalists and its opponents Anti-Federalists.

By the time the framers of the Constitution met in Philadelphia, America was at a precarious crossroads and violence was bubbling to the surface. Federalists and Anti-Federalists argued bitterly over the distribution of power proposed by the new Constitution, the arrangement of government offices, the need for a Bill of Rights, slavery, and countless other issues.

Yet one thing still united them — the understanding that whatever form of government was to be adopted, its goal should be the happiness of the people. Edmund Randolph, in his notes on the Virginia ratification debates, references the happiness of the people repeatedly in making his arguments.

In Federalist 1, Hamilton argues that the new system of government was the safest course toward happiness. New Yorker Robert Yates, writing under the pen name Brutus in the Antifederalist Papers, made repeated references to this basic assumption, with turns of phrase that echoed his pro-Constitution opponents. In for example, in a discussion of the conflict between slave and free states over the apportionment of House Members, he noted that "Society instituted government to promote the happiness of the whole, and this is the great end always in view in the delegation of powers.

Yates was not alone among the Anti-Federalists in voicing his assumption about the role of government in regards to happiness. Let me read that clause of the bill of rights of Virginia which relates to this: 3d clause This, Sir, is the language of democracy…But how different is the genius of your new Constitution from this?

How different from the sentiments of freemen, that a contemptible minority can prevent the good of the majority? If then Gentlemen standing on this ground are come to that point, that they are willing to bind themselves and their posterity to be oppressed, I am amazed and inexpressibly astonished. In fact, all of the above examples of statements by prominent individual founders are amplified by documents read, signed and published by larger assemblies of those involved in this debate.

The transcripts of the debates at these ratifying conventions are littered with appeals to the grand goal of human felicity in arguments for and against not only the adoption of the Constitution as a whole, but on a plethora of specific issues from the power to tax to the amendment process to slavery.

At the Massachussetts ratifying convention, one Rev. To be called by the voice of my fellow-citizens to give my vote for or against a constitution of government that will involve the happiness or misery of millions of my countrymen, is of so solemn a nature as to have occasioned the most painful anxiety.

So widespread was the understanding that government existed for the general happiness of the people when the Constitution was ratified that in its early years numerous citizens brought legal suit against the government for impeding their unalienable right to happiness.

Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of…Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion.

Defining Happiness: The Founding Assumption that happiness is an inalienable right to be protected by government is well and good, but what is happiness? The debate has raged for millennia without consensus on the answer. But what thousands of years of philosophizing and decades of life experience gave the Founders instead of a single definition is a variety of useful definitions of types or aspects of happiness that almost everyone would agree are worth pursuing.

When looking at the views of the Founders and their intellectual forebears, happiness can be broken down into three broad aspects. Physical enjoyment, positive emotions and mental ease are things that as a general rule, humans seek out naturally. There are dangers to simply equating pleasure with happiness, but the enjoyment of life should not be dismissed as irrelevant and was not dismissed by the founders.

Many major Enlightenment thinkers rejected religion altogether, and contended that the prejudices of organized religion were a major obstacle to happiness and were in fact the source of great suffering. And so despite the fact that early Enlightenment thinkers and their heroes such as Plato, Aristotle and Socrates had generally rejected total hedonism, thinkers like La Mettrie, Giacomo Casanova, and the Marquis de Sade promoted the absolute embrace of sensual pleasure.

While most Enlightenment thinkers did not go to such hedonic extremes, nearly all did put more emphasis on pleasure than their ancient Greek and Roman forebears. Much of this was couched carefully in language borrowed from ancient Greece and Rome, in which happiness followed virtue and sensual pleasure itself was not the ultimate goal. For example, while John Locke insisted that true happiness was aimed at unity with God, and therefore that not all forms of pleasure are conducive to happiness, others disagreed.

In , two days before signing the newly drafted Constitution, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention had what must have been a pretty rollicking farewell party for George Washington at which they ordered 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of porter, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 bottles of beer and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch.

It perhaps should not have come as a surprise, given that alcohol was regularly served at meetings of the Convention itself. The founders apparently were unafraid to let loose now and again.

In his recent book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition , Daniel Okrent writes: "When twenty-four-year- old George Washington first ran for a seat in the Virginia House of Burgesses, he attributed his defeat to his failure to provide enough alcohol for the voters.

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