Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1: The Most Important Idea in the World: An Introduction -- 1.1 Everyone Wants to Be Happy -- 1.2 Jingles and Jangles -- 1.2.1 The Two Cultures About Happiness -- 1.3 Conceptualizing Eudaimonia -- 1.3.1 The Etymology -- 1.3.2 Translating Eudaimonia into English -- 1.3.3 Psychological Theories of Eudaimonia -- 1.3.4 Other Understandings of Eudaimonia -- 1.4 Conceptual Controversies -- 1.4.1 Do We Really Need the Concept of Eudaimonia? -- 1.5 Fulfilling the Intrinsic Values of Human Nature -- 1.5.1 Purpose and Meaning -- 1.6 Conclusion