Meaningful alternatives to happiness
/Students who have completed one of my sections of the Introductory Psychology course will be very familiar with Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Happiness Hypothesis. Because Haidt is such a good writer and speaker, it doesn't always occur to those following him that there might be other more important goals in life than happiness. For a view on the purpose of life that aims in a different direction - one more consistent with the existential phenomenologists introduced by Butt near the end of the course - see this recent CBC Ideas podcast: Say No to Happiness.