Perspectives on Happiness

Søren Harnow Klausen is Professor of Philosophy at University of Southern Denmark. He has published on a wide variety of philosophical and interdisciplinary topics, including happiness, philosophy of mind, philosophy of literature, ethics and social epistemology.Bryon Martin is an Assistant Professor of Recreation at Henderson State University, (Arkansas, USA). He has published and presented teaching strategies and research internationally in the areas of vintage cars, boating, wheelchair sports, sports officiating, sport violence, recreation in primary schools and recreation as a tool for social capital.Mustafa Cihan Camci is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Akdeniz University, Department of Gerontology. His current interests are philosophy of art, philosophy of time, literature, and aging. Camci’s publications, both Turkish and English, are mainly on existential philosophy, particularly the impact of Heideggerian thought on modern Turkish cinema and literature.Sarah A. Bushey graduated from the University of Florida (USA) and taught at the same institution from 2015-2018. She holds degrees in music education, performance and music history. Dr. Bushey has taught classes in music history, American musical theatre and general humanities. She now resides in her hometown in the state of Maine where she owns and operates a bakery.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionSøren Harnow Klausen, Bryon Martin, Cihan Camci and Sarah Bushey1 Happiness in the Routine of Everyday LifeCihan Camci2 Against ‘Feeling Good’: Aristotle’s Concept of Happiness (eudaimonia)A. Erdem Çifçi3 Utility, Liberty, and the State’s Duty to Promote FlourishingAndrew Molas4 What Makes College Students Happy? A Day Reconstruction StudyRanjeeta Basu and Marie D. Thomas5 Hegemonic Systems and the Politics of Happiness: the Fairy Tale as IdeologySheila M. Rucki and Lisa Ortiz6 Using Art Therapy Techniques to Explore Home Life HappinessEmily Corrigan-Kavanagh, Carolina Escobar-Tello and Kathy Pui Ying Lo7 What Is the Good Life: an Overview of the ‘Good Life’ at the University of FloridaSarah Bushey8 The Vocation Fulfilment: a Driver for Happiness at WorkAndrea- Mariana Marian and Valeriu Budeanu9 Classic Cars and Happiness: a Profile of Participants and Their Family, Community and Cultural HealthBryon Martin10 Happiness and the Structure and Dynamics of Human LifeSøren Harnow Klausen11 Quo Vadis: Fullness or Emptiness in the Pursuit of Happiness?Robert D. Hermanson12 Earthly Happiness and Heavenly HappinessSeán Moran13 Happiness in Higher Education in Hong Kong: an Anthropology StudyKelly K. L. Chan14 Re- Embracing Simplicity: An Exploration of Epicurean HappinessJulia Hotz15 The Subjective Well- Being of Married Women In and Out of the Workforce in Sri LankaAnn Shelomi Panditharatne16 The Sublime LandscapeJane Russell-O’ConnorIndex