caa a22 4500 463217764 CHVBK 20180405153202.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9006-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9006-5 Haybron Dan Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., Rm. 130, 63108, St. Louis, MO, USA aut Life satisfaction, ethical reflection, and the science of happiness [Elektronische Daten] [Dan Haybron] Life satisfaction is widely considered to be a central aspect of human welfare. Many have identified happiness with it, and some maintain that well-being consists largely or wholly in being satisfied with one's life. Empirical research on well-being relies heavily on life satisfaction studies. The paper contends that life satisfaction attitudes are less important, and matter for different reasons, than is widely believed.] For such attitudes are appropriately governed by ethical norms and are perspectival in ways that make the relationship between life satisfaction and welfare far more convoluted than we tend to expect. And the common identification of life satisfaction with happiness, as well as widespread views about the centrality of life satisfaction for well-being, are problematical at best. The argument also reveals an unexpected way in which philosophical ethics can inform scientific psychology: specifically, ethical reflection can help explain empirical results insofar as they depend on people's values. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 ethics nationallicence flourishing nationallicence happiness nationallicence life satisfaction nationallicence philosophy nationallicence self-reports nationallicence subjective well-being nationallicence utility nationallicence welfare nationallicence well-being nationallicence Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2007-03-01), 99-138 1389-4978 8:1<99 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9006-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9006-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haybron Dan Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., Rm. 130, 63108, St. Louis, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2007-03-01), 99-138 1389-4978 8:1<99 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer