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WellBeinginContemporarySociety
HappinessStudiesBookSeries2015,pp93113
Date:04Nov2014

CanTechnologyMakeUsHappy?
Abstract
Thechapterintroducesadistinctionbetweenapersonrelatedandacircumstancedirectedtypeofhappinessinordertoinvestigateinwhichway
moderntechnologycancontributetohumanhappiness.Thisdistinctioniselaboratedasthedifferencebetweenachievershappinessand
spectatorshappiness.Lookingattheethicaltradition,itisarguedthatmoralphilosophershavecertainexpectationsaboutwhatshouldcountas
truehappinessforhumanbeings,whocanactinaccordancewithmoralvalues.Theessaypresentsthreeargumentsforthesuperiorityof
achievershappinessfromamoralpointofview.Lookingatmoderntechnologyitisarguedthatwefindbothinanoptimisticandapessimistic
evaluationofmoderntechnologyvaluableinsightsintotherolethattechnologycan(andcannot)playforthehumanstrivingforhappiness.
Finallypersuasivetechnologiesarepresentedasonetypeofrecenttechnologiesthatpromisestocontributetoachievershappinessifdeveloped
whiletakingethicalrequirementsintoaccount.
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AboutthisChapter
Title
CanTechnologyMakeUsHappy?
BookTitle
WellBeinginContemporarySociety
Pages
pp93113
Copyright
2015
DOI
10.1007/9783319064598_6
PrintISBN
9783319064581
OnlineISBN
9783319064598
SeriesTitle
HappinessStudiesBookSeries
SeriesISSN
22137513
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SpringerInternationalPublishing
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SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland
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Topics
QualityofLifeResearch
PositivePsychology
Ethics
EconomicPolicy
Keywords
Moderntechnologyandhappiness
Humanhappiness
Happinessandcontemporarysociety
Spectatorshappinessandachievershappiness
Ethicalidealofhappiness
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Editors
JohnnyH.Sraker (2)
JanWillemVanderRijt (3)
JelledeBoer (4)
PakHangWong (5)
PhilipBrey (6)
EditorAffiliations
2.DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofTwente
3.DepartmentofPhilosophyandEconomics,UniversityofBayreuth
4.DepartmentofPhilosophy,DelftUniversityofTechnology
5.InstituteforScience,UniversityofOxford
6.DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofTwente
Authors
AndreasSpahn(7)
AuthorAffiliations
7.PhilosophyandEthicsofTechnology,IE&IS,EindhovenUniversityofTechnology,Postbus513,5600MB,Eindhoven,
TheNetherlands

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