Blackwell Public Philosophy Series 55 - Happy-People-Pills F ...

Mark Walker

• 01 maart 2013
• 9781118357316

Samenvatting:

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