Tag Archives: Happiness

the seeking of pleasure for pleasure’s sake- part 1

Posted on Sep. 17, 2009 by Peter Boumgarden

In an interesting blog in the NY Times yesterday, Yale Psychologist Paul Bloom poses the following question: should we strive to live life as happy pigs or sad Socrates? In other words, should we lean into out short-term tendencies to seek pleasure, … Continue reading →

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Happiness in the long run

Posted on May. 19, 2009 by Peter Boumgarden

This month’s Atlantic contains Joshua Wolf Shenk’s fascinating profile of Harvard’s “Grant Study” of human happiness. The project started in 1937 and followed the lives of 268 Harvard men in an attempt to tease out the primary factors underlying human … Continue reading →

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