In 1891, the academic Hugh Fraser Stewart described the “Consolation of Philosophy” as “the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.” In “The Discarded Image,” C.S. Lewis ...

Each morning when I awake, I experience again the supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dalí. ~ Guess Who Und sogar im Himalaya, der Erleuchtung schon so nah, bin ich irgendwie so’n bißchen ...

Having co-taught a course on The Psychology and the Philosophy of Happiness for a few years, the differences between the two disciplines and the approaches they take have become clearer to me.

When we seek happiness, what exactly are we searching for? And when we wish happiness on someone else, what is it that we truly desire for them? Can happiness even be defined or is it an illusion, an ...

What exactly is pleasure? What causes pain, and how could it be avoided? Perennial questions like these fascinated the Greek philosopher Epicurus. While philosophers before him had thought of and ...

Are you a liberal? I mean it not in the modern political left-right sense but under the post-Enlightenment philosophical definition of standing for the rights of individuals, consent of the governed, ...

Stephanie Harrison is the founder of The New Happy, an organization advancing a new philosophy of happiness. She is an expert in happiness, speaker, designer, and author of the forthcoming book "New ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! During the COVID lockdowns, Jeffrey Rosen, director of the National Constitution ...