{"title":"Notions of the Good Life","authors":"R. Veenhoven","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199557257.013.0012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"textabstractThe word “happiness” has many different meanings. In the broadest sense it denotes the\nquality of life as a whole and in the most limited sense it refers to a moment of bliss. This\n'Handbook of Happiness” is about happiness in a broad sense and could as well have been\nentitled “Handbook of Quality of Life” or “Handbook of Well-being.” Given the breadth of\nthe topic, it is useful to start this section with an inspection of the more specific meanings of\nthe word happiness and explain which of these meanings are used in the following chapters","PeriodicalId":227356,"journal":{"name":"World Database of Happiness","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"22","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"World Database of Happiness","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199557257.013.0012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
textabstractThe word “happiness” has many different meanings. In the broadest sense it denotes the
quality of life as a whole and in the most limited sense it refers to a moment of bliss. This
'Handbook of Happiness” is about happiness in a broad sense and could as well have been
entitled “Handbook of Quality of Life” or “Handbook of Well-being.” Given the breadth of
the topic, it is useful to start this section with an inspection of the more specific meanings of
the word happiness and explain which of these meanings are used in the following chapters