{"title":"Inner Agents and Saboteurs of the Good Life:","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.14","url":null,"abstract":"Egoism and extreme pleasure-seeking, and indeed a flourishing life, are not simply external phenomena in the world, but may also be the products of inner motivations and conflicting forces within the individual psyche. Meeting our inner progressive and saboteur roles helps us to gain greater freedom to take action for our own good, and to the benefit of others. Role training can provide effective support for this. I propose archetypal roles which may promote and hinder the flourishing life in a person, including for example the Overachiever, the Orphan, the Tyrant, the Fool, the Rebel, the Friend, the Explorer, the Artist and the Sage. Role theory is a bridge between the person and the community, as it encompasses phenomena in the personal psyche as well as interactions among people. Moreno’s vision is that the dramatic tools can transform human culture to make it more creative, spontaneous and healing.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132583700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest for Happiness","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.46692/9781529218008.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218008.005","url":null,"abstract":"There seems to be a paradox: while happiness seems to be ‘good’, bringing as it does a wealth of positive benefits, the search for happiness falls short of being an optimal life strategy. Why is this so? Scientific evidence suggests that it is not helpful for us to try to maximize happiness or to follow a general ‘maximizer’ strategy. Well-being is not a state of continuous euphoria; it requires the experience of ‘mixed emotions’, with shorter spells of negative feelings. (Longer spells of such feelings and extreme suffering may well require external support.) ‘Forced positivity’ and being ‘happiness-greed’ are therefore both strategies that we can refute.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127077804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable Hedonism","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on modern science and ancient Greek philosophy, this book calls to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and disconnection.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124081539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Laboratory of the Flourishing Life: Serious Change Can Be Playful","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.46692/9781529218008.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218008.009","url":null,"abstract":"Role play and theatre belongs to our human history as a way of creative storytelling, and ‘ordinary people’ can also become the artists and creators of their own lives and our collective culture, as Jacob Levy Moreno argues. I present the Theatre of the Soul, the method I use, as developed by Moreno and his followers. It creates opportunities to enact the ‘flourishing self‘, to explore and experience personal strengths, to visualize values and future visions for individuals and groups, or to create celebrations and rituals. The Theatre of the Soul offers a creative and playful form of self-expression for all, with a safe space for exploration, guided by the core values of openness, acceptance and curiosity. A group experience can powerfully change norms and behaviour. Group work and specific tools (such as role reversal) can boost empathy, social competence, and can increase one’s ability to cooperate with and trust others. Therefore, positive community experiences could be one of the keys to finding solutions to the global crisis.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129527850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Flourishing Life: Living Well and Doing Well","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.46692/9781529218008.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218008.007","url":null,"abstract":"Happiness, according to Aristotle, is not the gift of Gods, not a matter of luck, but rather the result of virtue-based actions within the context of the community. He held that there was a perfect order in the heavenly spheres (‘cosmos’), and that the goal of human effort is to align to this by creating order in one’s own inner world. Virtues play a key role in this, as well as ‘friendship’, which in use was a rather broad term. His term for happiness, ‘eudaimonia’, is most often translated as a ‘flourishing life’. Academic studies suggest that purposeful activities bring more joy, greater life satisfaction and physical health than does radical hedonism. A relatively less known strand of research shows that there is no contradiction between a happy life and environmentally conscious lifestyle, including voluntary simplicity, reduction of meat eating or other green adjustments, and explains the pathways for increasing both. ‘Sustainable hedonism’ appears to be a realistic strategy. In our personal pursuits, we can be inspired by existing movements and networks. A few examples are given: solidarity economy, commons, Economy of the Common Good, the Transition Network and others.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123902455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unintended Consequences of Economics as a Science","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.7","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the way economics is taught in most places, the relationship between inner and external worlds tends to remain unexamined by many students, scholars and business leaders: how assumptions in economics affect the real world. Recent empirical research presented in Chapter 1 suggests that the study of mainstream neoclassical economics, with its image of human as a selfish, competitive figure, may function as a self-fulfilling prophecy, making students more selfish, and business decisions more profit-oriented. People may adapt to a norm, and do what they regard necessary for success. There seems to be far too little open exchange on what ‘success’ is, what is the future they want to see and contribute to.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126722893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Narrative of Success in Capitalism, and Its Failures","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.8","url":null,"abstract":"It is now evident that prioritizing GDP growth over other objectives does not create a happy life. Consumer capitalism has had a number of unintended consequences. It promises abundance, which is appealing to many who have experienced shortages of basic goods (or whose ancestors did so), but it also brings with it systemic shortfalls, including global injustice due to ‘imperial lifestyles’, and the prevalence of food waste and obesity. It promises the opportunity to live like an ‘aristocrat’ by consuming status goods and services, but, due to the ‘hedonic treadmill’, is unlikely to succeed, while it also fails the poorest in society. The illusion that our boundless desires can be fulfilled comes at the cost of new forms of addiction.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121574284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Is There Anyone Who Does Not Want to Thrive?","authors":"","doi":"10.46692/9781529218008.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218008.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132760648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusions: Flourishing Life in the World","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.46692/9781529218008.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529218008.011","url":null,"abstract":"In sum, we can become both more virtuous and better hedonists. A flourishing life offers an alternative, where our value-seeking, moral selves and our instinctive, pleasure-seeking selves can be integrated. It also offers a pathway to a both sustainable and happy life. We will be able to actively contribute to the collective effort to create a more ecologically sustainable world in a way which does not reduce our well-being. A vital element of this is reassessing our needs. The sense of safety is a necessary prerequisite for personal change, which needs to be supported by public policies as well as transformative methods and therapies. This thriving life is an utopia that lives already within us and among us. There are islands of communities, companies, movements and people that already live a thriving life that does not cost the earth. We already have the needed repertoire of tools for such a life.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121072743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Values in an Era of Free Choice","authors":"Orsolya Lelkes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ns7mnz.12","url":null,"abstract":"According to the global survey of values by Shalom Schwartz, the three most widely acclaimed values are benevolence (friendship, love), universalism (tolerance, peace, love of nature), and self-direction (freedom, creativity). These results hold across diverse cultures and continents, implying that humanity has a majority consensus on our core values. This shows that the presumptions of the world-view of the economic man do not hold: people are not primarily egoistic pleasure- and power-seekers. I am inclined to interpret these values as aspirations: this is how we (want to) see ourselves. The question is how we can live up to our own aspirations, and how can we integrate these in our daily lives, in our institutions.","PeriodicalId":387774,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Hedonism","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132675064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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