Is happiness the real purpose of life? Aristotle's timeless philosophy offers a thought-provoking lesson on finding meaning ...

In his Nicomachean Ethics, the philosopher Aristotle tries to discover what is ‘the supreme good for man’, that is, what is the best way to lead our life and give it meaning. For Aristotle, a thing is ...

The search for meaning in life can find answers in Aristotle's virtue ethics, which promotes happiness through reason and virtue, especially in times of personal uncertainty.

Regardless of East or West, humanity has been discussing happiness since before the Common Era. In Greek philosophy of the ...

Many people say they are looking for happiness. They spend a lot of time and resources searching for the secrets of well-being, like old-time miners prospecting for gold. But for some sages throughout ...

The trouble with happiness is that everyone keeps trying to sell it to you. It comes in so many different packages: bottles, retreats, journals, apps, linen trousers, collagen powders, Scandinavian ...

Happiness seems to be in short supply today, with acrimony, incivility and bad behavior permeating society and the media from the highest echelons of government on down. Yet happiness has always been ...

What is it with the soft sciences, anyway, that its practitioners are so good at coming up with studies that border on the banal? Take the two Harvard psychologists, whose study is reported by John ...