caa a22 4500 463217780 CHVBK 20180405153202.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9007-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9007-4 Griffin James Corpus Christi College, OX1 4JF, Oxford, United Kingdom aut What Do Happiness Studies Study? [Elektronische Daten] [James Griffin] What do, or should, happiness studies study? Everything to which we refer with the word ‘‘happiness'' is worth some study. But the study of subjective states covers only part of the ground covered by the word ‘‘happiness'' and by no means all the ground central to understanding happiness. On the central use of ‘‘happiness,'' to be happy is to be glad or satisfied or content, which suggests subjectivity, with having a good measure of what is important in life, which suggests objectivity. We find the same suggestion of both subjectivity and objectivity in the list of what enhances the quality of life. There are strong arguments in favour both of the subjectivity of what enhances life and of its objectivity. I argue that neither is right, that the story is more complicated. The conclusion of the story is that there is a list of several non-reducible features that contribute to the quality of a characteristic human life, and that anything that contributes to the quality of any human life will be one or other of these features. But there is a problem. When we speak of the quality of a human life, there may be no one thing we have in mind. Perhaps some of us are not disagreeing with one another over the nature of a ‘‘happy'' life but speaking of different things. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 happiness nationallicence incommensurability nationallicence incomparability nationallicence objectivity/subjectivity of values nationallicence univocity of ‘‘happiness'' nationallicence Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2007-03-01), 139-148 1389-4978 8:1<139 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9007-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9007-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Griffin James Corpus Christi College, OX1 4JF, Oxford, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/1(2007-03-01), 139-148 1389-4978 8:1<139 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer