Good Life

A Good Life is a human life that has a high score in a good life measure.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_good_life Retrieved:2015-11-30.
- The good life is a term for the life that one would like to live, or for happiness, associated (as eudaimonia) with the work of Aristotle and his teaching on ethics. People who hope for a better world feel the need for a shared vision of the "good life," a vision that is flexible enough for innumerable individual circumstances but comprehensive enough to unite people in optimistic, deliberate, progressive social change.

(Veenhoven, 2013) ⇒ Ruut Veenhoven. (2013). “The Four Qualities of Life Ordering Concepts and Measures of the Good Life.” In: The exploration of happiness, pp. 195-226 . Springer Netherlands,

(Sen, 1999) ⇒ Amartya Sen. (1999). “Development As Freedom." Oxford University Press.
- QUOTE: The issue is not the ability to live forever on which Maitreyee - bless her soul - happened to concentrate, but the capability to live really long without being cut off in one's prime) and to have a good life while alive (rather than a life of misery and unfreedom) - things that would be strongly valued and desired by nearly all of us. The gap between the two perspectives (that is, between an exclusive concentration on economic wealth and a broader focus on the lives we can lead) is a major issue in conceptualizing development. As Aristotle noted at the very beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics (resonating well with the conversation between Maitreyee and Yajnavalkya three thousand miles away), “wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.",

(King & Napa, 1998) ⇒ Laura A. King, and Christie K. Napa. (1998). “What Makes a Life Good?.” In: Journal of personality and social psychology 75, no. 1

(Singer, 1997) ⇒ Peter Singer. (1997). “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle.” In: New Internationalist, 289.
- QUOTE: An ethical life is one in which we identify ourselves with other, larger, goals, thereby giving meaning to our lives. The view that there is harmony between ethics and enlightened self-interest is an ancient one, now often scorned. Cynicism is more fashionable than idealism. But such hopes are not groundless, and there are substantial elements of truth in the ancient view that an ethically reflective life is also a good life for the person leading it.

(Belk & Pollay, 1985) ⇒ Russell W. Belk, and Richard W. Pollay . (1985). “Images of Ourselves: The Good Life in Twentieth Century Advertising.” In: Journal of Consumer Research

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life Retrieved:2021-3-31.
- The Good Life or Good Life may refer to:
  Eudaimonia, a philosophical term for the life that one would like to live, originally associated with Aristotle.