Arts-of-Living |
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Authors: | Ruut Veenhoven |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | The term 'art-of-living' refers to capabilities for leading a good life. Since there are different views on what a good life is, there could also be a difference in the capabilities called for. In this paper I distinguish two main views on the good life: the 'virtuous' life and the 'enjoyable' life and describe variants of each. I explore what competencies are required for living such lives and conclude that these differ indeed. So there are different arts-of-living. The set of capabilities required for leading a happy life can be identified by means of empirical research. This capability-profile comes close to the notion of 'positive mental health'. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | art-of-living life skills happiness positive mental health. |
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