Happy-People-Pills For All: Walker/Happy-People-Pills For All

__Happy-People-Pills for All__ explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing. * Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happiness * A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of ‘happy-pills’, to promote the wellbeing of the individual and society * Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happiness * Maps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacology * Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness Content: Chapter 1 Introductory (pages 1–18/): Chapter 2 What is Living and What is Dead in Brave New World (pages 19–40): Chapter 3 What Do We Mean by ‘Happiness’? (pages 41–71): Chapter 4 The Elements of the Good Life: It is a Very Big List (pages 72–99): Chapter 5 Wellbeing and Virtue (pages 100–119): Chapter 6 Happiness Promotes Perfection (pages 120–154): Chapter 7 Happy Pharmacology (pages 155–186): Chapter 8 Arguments for Happy?People?Pills (pages 187–205): Chapter 9 Ethical Objections (pages 206–232): Chapter 10 Happy?People?Pills and Public Policy (pages 233–271):

Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.

• Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happiness
• A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of ‘happy-pills’, to promote the wellbeing of the individual and society
• Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happiness
• Maps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacology
• Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness

The latest theories and debates on what it means to be "happy" and how prospective pharmacological agents can enhance our capacity for happiness Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing.