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Happiness - a noble quest

BDJ Student volume 31, pages 50–51 (2024)Cite this article

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The search for happiness is a common theme in today's popular media. We seem fixated on trying to find it. Studies into happiness flourished during the 1990s and 2000s, approaching happiness from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, sociology, chemistry, biology, and economics.

It has been a source of philosophy inquiry and debate for many centuries: what the major differences in how we interpret its meaning today are, and what the ancient philosophers understood by it. Today, we have access to the science of happiness.

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    Raj Rattan

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Rattan, R. Happiness - a noble quest. BDJ Student 31, 50–51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41406-024-1383-x

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