The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

Albert Camus, a French-Algerian philosopher, argued in The Myth of Sisyphus that the search for happiness can obstruct true ...

He was a writer much ahead of his times. If one could get into the mind of Aldous Huxley-or at least try to write like someone who spent too many late nights thinking about his books-one would start ...

Alison Gopnik is ranked among today's most influential psychologists . She is Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Also, she writes ...

It’s no wonder that the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” have been immortalized for all these centuries. Give just about any human being the time, space and money to do whatever they ...