Podcast ch1... Happiness 2
1. What nation did Gallup find to be happiest in terms of daily experience?
2. What does Haybron say will most likely NOT be on your deathbed list of things you'd like to experience again before you go?
3. Which of Haybron's three happiness theories is not mainly concerned with feelings?
4. Your posture or stride reveals something deeper than what?
5. Tranquility, confidence, and expansiveness are aspects of what state of mind/body?
6. What famous western Buddhist says happiness is an optimal state of being, much more than a feeling?
(Ace the quiz with six correct answers, including answers to non-redundant quiz questions posted before class in the comments section by a classmate, and score a run. You can also score by posting such a question yourself- but don't take credit for answering your own question.)
Discussion Questions:
- Do you agree that there's never been a better time to be alive? 1
- Do you think many poor communities are happier than the average college student? 3
- How important is health, and healthcare, in your conception of happiness? 7
- Do we need a theory or definition of happiness? 10
- Can you be a genuinely happy individual in an unhappy society? 13
- How much does happiness depend on achieving a "mindless" state such as Haybron's dad described? 14
- Can you describe a pictorial moment of your own like the one in the photo of Haybron and his dad? 18
- Do you agree that Americans pursue joy, where Asians seek attunement? Who's happier? 19
- Do you ever "flow"? 21
- Do you share the Stoic quest for "at home"-ness as the mark of happiness? 22
- Do you experience "time poverty"? 25
(Score a run if you posted a non-redundant DQ in the comments section before class. Remember to log in your notebook all the runs you will be claiming on the scorecard each day, so that your discussion group's scorekeeper can certify them and post the totals.)
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