tenta Flashcards
PEM-model
A model made my Martin Seligman, in this model he means that there are three types of happiness, whereas each letter stands for something.
Pleasant life, engaged life and meaningful life.
PERMA-model
A new version of PEM-Model.
Hedonistic well-being
This type of well-being refers to how people feel about their life, how we feel and think!
PEM-model.
Eudaimonic well-being
This type of well-being is about developing the best in onself and living according to one’s virtues and engaging in activies that are equivalent with deeply held values.
Tal Ben-Shahar, The Hamburger Model
By this model, Tal means that we go trough these stages, whereas we don’t know how to be happy in the future and in the present.
Rat race, Vegetarian burger.
Future benefit, present detriment. Gives you health benefits for the future.
Suffers now for the purpose of some anticipated gains. Being a hard worker, or a high achiever, is not synonymous with being a rat racer.
We learn to focus on the next goal rather than on our present experience and chase the ever-elusive future our entire lives.
Keeps chasing goals.
- Describes the state of living in for the future
Hedonicm, Junk-food burger
Present benefit and future detriment.
A hedonist seeks pleasure and avoids pain. This person will do things that are potentially detrimental if they afford her immediate gratification.
Feels good in the moment, and give up on future happiness.
- Describes the state of living in for the present.
Nihilism, worst burger
Future detriment and present detriment.
A nihilist person is a person who has given up on happiness, who has become redigned to the belief that life has no meaning.
Lost the lust for life.
- Captures the state of being chained to the past. Such attachments to past failures has been described by Martin Seligman as “learn helplessness”
Happiness, according to Stoics
According to Stoics, the ultimate purpose of human life is to live in harmony with Logos, the rational spirit of the universe.
To live honorably and always according to reason and cultivate classical virtues such as wisdom.
Logos
The divine order or the rational spirit of the universe
Askesis
To develop wisdom and self-control. The practise of severe self-discipline
Eupatheia
Good states of mind
Ataraxia
A state of happiness. A state of serene calmness
Happiness, according to Epicurus
Epicurus argued in the good life, whats makes it the good life.
We ought to seek pleasure and avoid pain. But, Epicurus saw a problem with this. You cannot try to maximize your presence in pleasure feelings. That’s why selective hedonism comes in the picture
Selective hedonism
Satisfy only yhose desires that will make us happy in the lond run.