Happy-People-Pills For All

Mark Walker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2013
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-35738-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.



Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happiness
A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of ‘happy-pills’, to promote the wellbeing of the individual and society
Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happiness
Maps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacology
Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness

Autor

Mark Walker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. Dr. Walker also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Evolution and Technology and on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments ix

1 Introductory 1

2 What is Living and What is Dead in Brave New World 19

3 What DoWe Mean by ‘Happiness’? 41

4 The Elements of the Good Life: It is a Very Big List 72

5 Wellbeing and Virtue 100

6 Happiness Promotes Perfection 120

7 Happy Pharmacology 155

8 Arguments for Happy-People-Pills 187

9 Ethical Objections 206

10 Happy-People-Pills and Public Policy 233

Index 273

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 163 x 236 mm
• Gewicht: 526 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 1-118-35738-8 / 1118357388
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-35738-5 / 9781118357385
• Zustand: Neuware