In Pursuit Of Happiness, And ...

Damon Linker describes the composition of a purposeful life:

In the Aristotelian tradition of moral thinking, human beings don'tface a zero-sum choice between fulfillment and moral righteousness.They strive, instead, to fulfill a holistic vision of human flourishingthat includes both happiness and nobility. Or rather, this vision ofhuman flourishing treats happiness as inseparable from nobility. Thisis what Martin Seligman and the best of his colleagues in the positivepsychology movement have...