Science is more and more revealing how we will enhance our happiness

Kseniia Zagrebaeva
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These are three unalienable rights emphasised by the US Declaration of Independence as being the obligation of their leaders to guard and safe.
The third one offers maybe most pause for thought. What ought to governments – and all of us – be doing to maximise societal and private happiness? Certainly, what even defines happiness?
Politicans and philosophers have wrangled over the obvious contradictions and conflicts that such questions throw up for hundreds of years. In the meantime, a easy equivalence has come to be made the world over. Many imagine that happiness comes with having an even bigger cake and …


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