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Front Cover\nSustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life That Does Not Cost the Earth\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of Figures, Tables and Boxes\nAcknowledgements\nPreface\nIntroduction: Is There Anyone Who Does Not Want to Thrive?\n The challenge: one planet and a good life for all\n Our desire for growth and its failures\n The ‘success story’ we are telling ourselves\n The world as a marketplace\n (Unintended) consequences of economics and capitalism today\n Exploring and experiencing a thriving life\n Quest for happiness\n Values for a thriving life\n Pathways to a thriving life: experiential learning\n Our life as a living field\nPart I The Challenge\n 1 Unintended Consequences of Economics as a Science\n Not rational and not egoistic\n Self-fulfilling prophecy\n The economist is not a value-free outsider\n The responsibility of economists\n Not the recipe for success\n Beyond the model: our yearning for pleasure and freedom\n Hedonism: pleasure as the ultimate value\n Do desires drive the world?\n Celebrating freedom\n The manifesto of the pleasure-seeking person: the worldview\n 2 The Narrative of Success in Capitalism, and Its Failures\n The hope that material progress will make us happy and free\n GDP growth does not bring happiness\n Three unfulfilled promises\n The promise of abundance: the richly set table\n The darker side of abundance\n The promise of high status: ‘we can all be aristocrats’\n It is just a seductive mirage\n The promise of plenty: ‘all desires can be fulfilled’\n New forms of addiction\n Losing control: the story of the Golem\n What world do we want for ourselves?\nPart II What Is a Good Life?\n 3 Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest for Happiness\n Updating our emotional strategies from the Stone Age\n The science of happiness: new perspective on progress\n Pleasure, joy, happiness, meaning: thousand-faced happiness\n The benefits of happiness\n The right to be unhappy\n Negative feelings and positive feelings are not opposites\n Forced positivity\n Less is more: the pitfalls of maximizing\n ‘Maximizers’\n Not an endless peak experience\n Happiness with a thousand faces: aspects for personal investigation\n 4 Sustainable Hedonism\n Resource overuse and the ‘global rich’\n Radical hedonists\n The art of enjoying life: ancient hedonism\n Abounding pleasures: the ultra-hedonists\n Moderate pleasures: Epicurus\n Aristotle: the school of ‘good’ pleasures\n Scrutinizing desires: ‘necessary’ and ‘optional’ things\n Basic needs in contemporary social science\n The golden mean of pleasures\n Wisdom in the enjoyment\n Our personal convictions about joy and pleasure\n 5 A Flourishing Life: Living Well and Doing Well\n Happiness according to Aristotle: flourishing life\n Happiness as conscious action\n Virtuous life: pursuing intellectual and moral virtues\n Friendship: commitment along common values\n Flourishing life: modern psychological approaches\n Self-assessment: do I live a flourishing life?\n The value of flourishing life\n Flourishing and ‘conscious hedonism’\n Living well and caring: a flourishing life and ecological justice\n Pro-environmental behaviour boosts well-being\n Values are determinant\n Cultivating flourishing life in the 21st century\n From conflict to unity: the individual and the world\n A flourishing life is realized in the community\n Networks for sustainability\n Solidarity economy\n Aristotle, happiness and the climate emergency\n 6 Values in an Era of Free Choice\n Personal value inventory\n What guides you? Test for identifying core personal values\n Universal values across cultures\n We value what we need: self-determination theory and core values\n All three values are essential\n The structure of values and aspirations\n The conflict between self-enhancement and self-transcendence\n An external or an internal measure of success\n Causes and cures of strenuous self-enhancement\n Fame, money, power and ‘practical wisdom’\n Flourishing life is preferred to hedonism\n From values to action\n Key to genuine transformation: invite and inspire\nPart III How Do We Get There?\n 7 The Laboratory of the Flourishing Life: Serious Change Can Be Playful\n Learning with our full being\n Experiential action methods: a brief overview\n Weaknesses and limitations of these methods\n Not ‘psycho’ and not ‘drama’: the ‘stage of happiness’\n Moreno: the man who brought joy and laughter into psychiatry\n What is the Theatre of the Soul?\n All forces come to life\n The role of the director\n Theatre of the Soul for a flourishing life\n Drama with mindfulness and awareness\n Transformative group experience\n If I were you: empathy rather than advice\n ‘I-and-you’ instead of ‘I-and-it’\n My father’s imaginary diary\n The experience of community can be one of the keys to solving the global crisis\n 8 Inner Agents and Saboteurs of the Good Life: Role Theory\n The scholarship of our inner roles: role theory\n Our roles: authentically\n Our inner stage: role inventory\n Progressive roles\n Absent, underdeveloped, excessive and adequate roles\n Saboteur roles\n Resolving the inner paradox\n Case study 8.1: The studded road and the dancing broom\n Role training for authenticity: creative work with roles\n Step 1: Strengthening progressive roles: noticing the obvious\n Step 2: Seeing the invisible: missing roles\n Step 3: Befriending our saboteur roles\n Case study 8.2: The larva and the butterfly\n Case study 8.3: The transformation of squeezing perfectionism\n Conclusion: the use of inner exploration\n Conclusions: Flourishing Life in the World\n Happiness science: implications beyond happiness\n Value-based economics and our values in the economy\n Chasm between our aspirations and collective norms\n More virtuous and better hedonist\n A ‘thriving life that does not cost the Earth’\n Reassessing our needs\n Cultivating freedom beyond individualism: autonomy\n Existing utopia\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover\n9781529217971_p205-212.pdf\n Index\n Index