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Happiness Is the Wrong Metric : A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Etzioni, Amitai.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Library of Public Policy and Public Administration Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: What Makes a Good Life
  • Chapter 1: Happiness Is the Wrong Metric
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Within History
  • 1.3 The Rising Disconnect Between Income and Happiness
  • 1.4 Maslow and "Higher" Satisfactions
  • 1.4.1 The Hierarchy Revisited
  • 1.4.2 Within History: Capping Versus Denial
  • 1.5 Affirmation, Living Up to Moral Commitments
  • 1.5.1 Introspection
  • 1.5.2 Affirmation Defined
  • 1.5.3 Affirming Behavior Is Painful, Not Pleasurable
  • 1.5.4 Self-Centered Reductionists
  • 1.5.5 Evidence of Affirming Behavior
  • 1.5.6 Even in Economic Behavior
  • 1.5.7 Codetermination
  • 1.6 Preferences Socially Made, Can Be Socially Reconstructed
  • 1.6.1 Well-Being: Much Better But Not Good Enough
  • 1.7 Say It with Figures
  • 1.7.1 Happiness: Asked and Answered
  • 1.7.2 Life Satisfaction
  • 1.7.3 Well-Being
  • 1.7.4 Measuring Moral Behavior
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Bring Back the Moral Wrestler
  • 2.1 Homo Economicus: Not a Wrestler
  • 2.2 Homo Sapiens as Clueless
  • 2.3 Be Happy
  • 2.4 It Is All in Our Genes
  • 2.5 Anthropology Liberates: But Engenders Cultural Relativism
  • 2.6 Sociology: Collectivizing the Wrestle
  • 2.7 Clinical Psychology: From Freud to Morally Neutral
  • 2.8 Social Psychology: Powerful Narratives
  • 2.9 In Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: Human Nature
  • Chapter 3: Crossing the Rubicon
  • 3.1 From Given and Stable to Internally Modified
  • 3.1.1 The Economists' Treatment of Preference Formation
  • 3.1.2 The Ultimate Caveat
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Moral Dialogues
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Baselines
  • 4.3 Sociological Dialogue Starters
  • 4.4 Megalogues
  • 4.5 Distinct Attributes
  • 4.6 Dramatization
  • 4.7 Closure
  • 4.8 Case Study
  • 4.8.1 Baseline
  • 4.8.2 Sociological Dialogue Starters
  • 4.8.3 Billion-Hour Buzz
  • 4.8.4 Dramatization
  • 4.8.5 Closure.
  • 4.9 Community Building and Power Structures
  • 4.10 Relativism?
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Moral Effects of Teaching Economics
  • 5.1 Typical Findings
  • 5.1.1 Selection Effect?
  • 5.1.2 Qualifications
  • 5.2 In Conclusion
  • 5.2.1 When It Comes to Ethics, B-Schools Get an F
  • References
  • Part III: Job Loss &amp
  • Right Wing Populism
  • Chapter 6: Job Collapse on the Way to New Athens
  • 6.1 Job Collapse
  • 6.1.1 Jobs Already Lost Due to Automation
  • 6.1.2 Expected Future Job Losses
  • 6.1.3 Luddite Fallacy?
  • 6.1.4 Net Job Loss?
  • 6.1.5 What Is to Be Done?
  • 6.2 Education and Training for the Jobs of the Future
  • 6.2.1 An Assessment
  • 6.2.1.1 Education
  • 6.2.1.2 Retraining
  • 6.3 Basic Income and Social Safety Nets
  • 6.3.1 An Assessment
  • 6.4 Others
  • 6.4.1 An Assessment
  • 6.5 The New Athens
  • 6.5.1 Historical "Precedents"
  • 6.5.2 The Maslowian Exit
  • 6.5.3 Income and Happiness
  • 6.6 The Sisyphean Nature of Affluence
  • 6.7 True Flourishing: A Communitarian, Postmodern Culture
  • 6.7.1 The Contentment of Mutuality
  • 6.7.2 Happiness from Community Involvement
  • 6.7.3 Contentment from Transcendental Pursuits (Religious, Spiritual and Intellectual)
  • 6.8 Contributions to Sustainability and Social Justice
  • 6.8.1 Effect on Social Justice
  • 6.8.1.1 Underlying Assumptions
  • 6.8.1.2 Relevance for Attaining a Significantly Higher Level of Social Justice
  • 6.8.1.3 The Reallocation Effects of Communal Bonds
  • 6.8.1.4 The Role of Normative Content
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Nationalist Populism Is Not an Enemy
  • 7.1 Populism: Definition and Causes
  • 7.2 The Essentiality of Communities
  • 7.3 Elements of Liberal Communitarianism
  • 7.3.1 Limiting Free Trade?
  • 7.3.2 Limiting Immigration?
  • 7.3.3 Limiting Communities
  • 7.3.4 New Rights, More Empathy
  • 7.3.5 Free Speech: Legal Rights and Moral Rightness.
  • 7.3.6 Coping with Conflicts of Liberal and Communitarian Principles
  • 7.4 In Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IV: Moral Issues Raised by Individual Rights
  • Chapter 8: Free Speech Versus Safe Space
  • 8.1 Reflecting a Profound Societal Design
  • 8.1.1 Not Soft Censorship
  • 8.1.2 Ban Hate Speech?
  • 8.1.3 Microaggressions and "Check Your Privilege"
  • References
  • Chapter 9: The Right to Be Forgotten
  • 9.1 Second Chances
  • 9.2 A Hedged Right to Be Forgotten
  • References
  • Chapter 10: Back to the Pillory?
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Moral Triage
  • 11.1 Out of the Boats
  • 11.2 Exodus for a Chinese Activist
  • 11.3 Squandering the Moral Voice
  • References
  • Part V: A Global Dimension
  • Chapter 12: Talking with the Muslim World
  • 12.1 One Challenge, Wrapped in a Bigger One
  • 12.2 Components of US Normative Strategy
  • 12.2.1 The Precariousness of Secularism
  • 12.2.2 Promoting the Good Life
  • 12.2.3 Promoting Liberal Democracy
  • 12.3 Working with Islam to Address Islam
  • 12.4 In Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Defining Down Sovereignty
  • 13.1 Sovereignty as a Keystone
  • 13.1.1 Sovereignty Was Never Absolute
  • 13.1.2 Defining Down Sovereignty: The Responsibility to Protect
  • 13.1.3 How Far Is "Down"?
  • 13.1.4 No Coercive Regime Change
  • 13.1.5 The Duty to Prevent Transnational Terrorism
  • References
  • Chapter 14: The Case for Decoupled Armed Interventions
  • 14.1 The Idealism, Right and Left
  • 14.1.1 The Hubris
  • 14.2 Criteria for Interventions
  • 14.2.1 A Mental Experiment
  • 14.2.2 Which Means?
  • References
  • Part VI: Science and Technology
  • Chapter 15: Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence (with Oren Etzioni)
  • 15.1 Smart Machines, Harm, and Ethical Self-Guidance
  • 15.1.1 Reasons Smart Machines Are Said to Need Ethics
  • 15.1.2 Two Ways to Enable 'Smart' Cars to Render Ethical Decisions.
  • 15.1.3 Can Smart Machines Be Made into Moral Agents?
  • 15.2 "Autonomous Machines," A Highly Misleading Term
  • 15.2.1 How Autonomous Are Smart Machines?
  • 15.2.2 When Smart Machines Stray
  • 15.2.3 Partners, Not Free Standing Agents
  • 15.3 The Main Ethical Implementing Factors: Legal and Personal
  • 15.4 The Outlier Fallacy
  • References
  • Chapter 16: Pros and Cons of Autonomous Weapons Systems (with Oren Etzioni)
  • 16.1 In Support of AWS
  • 16.1.1 Military Advantages
  • 16.1.2 Moral Justifications
  • 16.2 Opposition to AWS
  • 16.2.1 Opposition on Moral Grounds
  • 16.2.2 Counter Arguments
  • 16.2.3 Level of Autonomy
  • 16.2.4 Defining Autonomy
  • References
  • Chapter 17: Robotic Care of Children, the Elderly, and the Sick (with Oren Etzioni)
  • 17.1 The Demand for Humanoid Robots
  • 17.2 Challenges
  • 17.3 Introducing AI Caregivers
  • 17.4 Substitute vs Partner?
  • 17.5 Goal vs. Comparative Evaluation
  • 17.6 Team Work
  • 17.7 AI Caregivers Need Supervision: Like Humans
  • 17.8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 18: Transforming the Active Orientation
  • 18.1 A Brief History of the Active Orientation
  • 18.1.1 Rising Doubts
  • 18.2 A Fork in the Road?
  • 18.2.1 Techno Optimism
  • 18.2.2 Techno Pessimism
  • 18.3 The Post-Affluence Society: A Third Way
  • 18.3.1 The Triple Challenge and Social Justice
  • 18.4 In Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 19: Communitarian Bioethics
  • 19.1 Earlier Treatments of Communitarian Bioethics
  • 19.2 Society (Community) vs. State
  • 19.2.1 Which Community?
  • 19.2.2 Procedures and Criteria
  • 19.2.3 Third Values
  • 19.2.4 Social Justice: A Case Study
  • 19.2.5 Add the Common Good
  • References
  • Acknowledgements.

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