Walker Happy-People-Pills For All

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-35731-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series

Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories ofhappiness while demonstrating the need to develop advancedpharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity forhappiness and wellbeing.
* Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement ofhappiness
* A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates themoral imperative for the development and mass distribution of'happy-pills', to promote the wellbeing of theindividual and society
* Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology ofhappiness
* Maps the development of the next generation of positive moodpharmacology
* Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.