What Makes for a Good Life? A Four-Nation Study
How do we assess the value of our lives? What makes the life we live a good or worthy one in our own eyes? What are its aims? The answers to these questions are implicit in the often unarticulated commitments by which people define their selves, purposes, and actions. These commitments structure the moral framework that guides our everyday qualitative distinctions and positions us within a unified narrative of continuity and change. The substantive conception of a good life, we argue, presupposes but is not reducible to a set of basic values. As an initial exploration of cultural variation, Canadian, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese university students were compared on what they held to be most important for assessing the worth of their lives. The results revealed considerable commonality of content with notable differences consistent with the cultural ethos of each group. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
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2012
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Authors: | Tafarodi, Romin ; Bonn, Greg ; Liang, Hanyu ; Takai, Jiro ; Moriizumi, Satoshi ; Belhekar, Vivek ; Padhye, Amruta |
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Journal of Happiness Studies. - Springer. - Vol. 13.2012, 5, p. 783-800
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