Recorded: September 5, 2007
Speaker: Vice Abbot of Upaya, Beate Stolte-Overtheil

Vice Abbot of Upaya, Beate Stolte-Overtheil reviews the history of philosophical views of human happiness starting with the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, and into modern philosophers and even neuroscience research . She describes several experimental studies to illustrate the influence of expectation upon the sense of happiness and then distinguishes between pleasure and true serenity or contentment.

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