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Taking the morality out of happiness

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2023
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Kneer, M., & Haybron, D. (2023). Taking the morality out of happiness (No. 4350806; SSRN). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4350806

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In an important and widely discussed series of studies, Jonathan Phillips and colleagues have suggested that the ordinary concept of happiness has a substantial moral component. For in- stance, two persons who enjoy the same extent of positive emotions and are equally satisfied with their lives are judged as happy to different degrees if one is less moral than the other. Considering that the relation between morality and happiness or self-interest has been one of the central questions of moral philosophy since at least Plato, such a r

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Happiness, Well-being, Moral Psychology, Experimental Ethics

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2023-01-20

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1556-5068

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Kneer, M., & Haybron, D. (2023). Taking the morality out of happiness (No. 4350806; SSRN). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4350806

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