Happiness, Contentment and the Good Life

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62 (4):378 (1981)
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tentment and its relationship to the notions of happiness and the good life. Many philosophers have argued that the concept of happiness can be defined or analyzed simply in terms of "contentment" or "being satisfied (or pleased) with one' s life."' Others have made the more modest claim that being satisfied with one' s..

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10.1111/j.1468-0114.1981.tb00075.x

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