What we do in our free time says a lot about what makes us happy. Halfpoint Images/Moment via Getty Images In his powerful book “The Burnout Society,” South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues ...

Aristotle conceives of God as the Prime Mover, the cause of all motion and change, forming the basis of Western metaphysical ...

My good friend Aristotle argues that “human happiness depends upon a person’s character.” For Aristotle, "the good life" is primarily about happiness, which is best understood as living well.

Many people say they are looking for happiness. They spend a lot of time and resources searching for the secrets of well-being, like old-time miners prospecting for gold. But for some sages throughout ...

The Internet has no shortage of moralists and moralizers, but one ethical epicenter is surely the extraordinary, addictive subreddit called “Am I the Asshole?,” popularly abbreviated AITA. In the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In his powerful book “The Burnout Society,” South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ross Channing Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology (THE CONVERSATION) ...