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Details | To promote the pursuit of happiness in educational institutions
If the pursuit of happiness is a basic right, it follows that we should be teaching our children about it.
To promote a diversity of views on the pursuit of happiness
As members of a global community, we should enrich our views on human well-being through the study of global perspectives.
To explore the ethical as well as psychological roots of human happiness
Positive psychology, the new "Science of Happiness," has provided us with new insights into human well-being based on concrete data. What is remarkable is that the empirically based insights of the positive psychologists resonate with the experiential and spiritual wisdom of great thinkers such as Confucius, Buddha and Aristotle.
To encourage critical thinking
Through the study of happiness we can learn how to compare and contrast perspectives from East and West, from the social sciences and humanities, on an issue that is immediately appealing and central to our lives.
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