Sentences with phrase «of human happiness»

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness.

The differences between these two selves are critical to our understanding of human happiness.

It's the life and soul of human happiness.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

He then described the humanist tradition as «a loose network of individuals broadly exercised by questions of the spirit, concerned to optimise the sum total of human happiness here on earth; individuals naturally respectful of others, wedded to rationalism and to scientific rigour, revering all life, unafraid to proclaim and to celebrate the joy of existence and the richness of human expression.»

'' Love and compassion... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.»

If I had to summarize all the causes of human happiness in one word, that word would be «social.»

As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovable; we add, more vitally, that the God idea is an interference with the interests of human happiness and progress.

Posthuman pleasure captures the peak of human happiness, the moment just before «the softly - falling soot of ordinary life» returns to cover our joy.

Let's try to take an analysis of the problems of human happiness and its impossibility — such as Peter Lawler thinks it.

Of course, human history has not been confined to this enterprise of doing and making, of using the resources of the world in order to achieve that sort of human happiness which comes from satisfying its inexhaustible wants.

By contrast, the practice of the Jewish religion was, in his eyes, not a necessary ingredient of human happiness but an obligation that God had placed on the Jews alone, as the biblical record attested.

The firmest substance of human happiness,» he said, «is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage scenery amid which we tread.

The utilitarian takes account only of the amount of human happiness, or utility, that a given action will produce.

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

Major premise: Sexual attraction and love are determinants of human happiness and should be consummated where sincerely felt.

The conception of human welfare according to its ideologues is to be brought about by the increase in material goods and wealth and not by the fostering of human happiness.

This makes Harris a consequentialist and places him squarely in the utilitarian tradition of John Stuart Mill who labored to give a qualitative account of the kinds of goods at play in the maximization of human happiness.

The argument from suffering reaches beyond medicine's responsibility and competence; it extends into metaphysical questions about the nature of human happiness and what constitutes a meaningful life.

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

People are told that sexual freedom and porno - culture are vehicles of human happiness and fulfillment.

Because Christ has come and is always present there can be no progress in the achieving of human happiness.

A recent study of human happiness concluded that the Nigerians are the world's happiest people despite their poverty.

The title of that long - ago theater production was 33 Scenes on the Possibility of Human Happiness.

«We've known for some time that social relationships are the best predictor of human happiness, and this paper shows that the effect is much more powerful than anyone realized,» says Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a professor of psychology at Harvard University.

I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master - builder of human happiness.

«The Lobster» is a satire on the subject of our universal obsession with relationships, and our conviction that couplehood is the supreme expression of human happiness, a civilised institution which distinguishes us from the beasts.»

THE MAN WHO CLAIMS that he is about to tell me the secret of human happiness is eighty - three years old, with an alarming orange tan that does nothing to enhance his credibility.

However its true that owning more and more «stuff» has steeply diminishing returns in terms of human happiness.

Positive psychology, also nicknamed happiness psychology, is basically a psychological study on the essence of human happiness, fulfillment and meaningfulness.

That is, Mill could maintain that the pride, liberty, and dignity which distinguish the higher pleasures are not separate from pleasure or happiness, but rather are essential parts of human happiness.

For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»

He studies the nature and causes of human happiness, and is...

He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the preservation of Tibet's Buddhist culture, a culture of peace and non-violence.