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HAPPINESS FACTUALQS - PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT
- Philosophy of Happiness Fall 2011 Factual Questions
- Does Ehrenreich claim that the positive thinking movement just another form of self absorbed distraction that is blinding us from the real problems of the world?
- What object does B.E. feel insulted her intelligence and made her feel “infantile”?
- Considering B.E.’s view of positive thinking, what does she believe concerning motivational schemes promoted by employers? Is this a type of encouragement for personal well-being or a means of social control in the workplace?
- What was the reason, given by a California court, for ruling against a female employee’s charge of sexual harassment after being publically spanked for under performing for a home security company?
- Happiness Questions
- When M. Ricard was approached about writing a book with his father, why did he agree but not believe he would ever write it?
- According to Ricard, there are three modes of suffering. What are they?
- What is significant about Invisible Suffering?
- It stems from the “blindness of our own minds”
- Happiness
- T/F The more you can free your daily activities to the autonomous the more you free consciousness for higher functions? (True)
- What are the basic elements of suhka? - The joy of being alive - The conviction that we still have the ability to flourish -An understanding of the epheneral nature of all things
- Who does B.E. identify as believing that poverty is a voluntary condition, and is a direct result of one's willful failure to embrace abundance?
- T/F The world of ignorance and suffering is not a fundamental condition of existence but a mental universe based on our mistaken conception of reality is called samsara? (True)
- #1: Has our Positive Thinking Movement done nothing but Capitalize happiness? #2: Does Ehrenreich believe that the Positive Thinking Movement is nothing but a self-absorbed distraction from the threats, problems, and shortcomings that plague our world?
- According to M. Ricard, there is a distinct difference between true and false altruism.
- At which American university did M. Ricard undergo his neurological analysis?
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