Sissela Bok is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and a moral philosopher of international renown. A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and sits on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Common Knowledge, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Her many books include the seminal Lying, Secrets, A Strategy for Peace, Mayhem, and Common Values. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Luck
p. 1
Experience
p. 11
Discordant Definitions
p. 35
"On the Happy Life"
p. 59
Measurement
p. 83
Beyond Temperament
p. 107
Is Lasting Happiness Achievable?
p. 132
Illusion
p. 155
The Scope of Happiness
p. 173
Notes
p. 179
Index
p. 203
Acknowledgments
p. 217
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