caa a22 4500 463217772 CHVBK 20180405153202.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9004-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9004-7 Chekola Mark Department of Philosophy, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 56563, Moorhead, MN, USA aut Happiness, Rationality, Autonomy and the Good Life [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Chekola] The paper starts with a general discussion of the concepts of happiness and the good life. I argue that there is a conceptual core of happiness which has to do with one's life as a whole. I discuss affective and attitude or life satisfaction views of happiness and indicate problems faced by those views. I introduce my own view, the life plan view, which sees happiness as the ongoing realizing of global desires of the person. I argue that on such a view one's life could be happy without a high level of rationality or a high level of autonomy; such rationality and autonomy are not built into the concept of happiness. So while happiness is a final value, and good for the person, it is not the only final value. Rationality and autonomy are also final values and, where they exist, are good as ends for the person, part of the good life. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 autonomy nationallicence good life nationallicence happiness nationallicence life plan nationallicence rationality nationallicence Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2007-03-01), 51-78 1389-4978 8:1<51 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9004-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9004-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chekola Mark Department of Philosophy, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 56563, Moorhead, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2007-03-01), 51-78 1389-4978 8:1<51 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer