In his most important philosophical work, De lo espiritual en la vida humana (1937), Molina argued that science and technology had done little to advance human happiness.
This broadening of focus has advanced the science of well-being and helped develop resources and interventions to promote happiness and positive mental health.
Moreover, you may have more effective means available to advance your own happiness than you do to advance the happiness of others.
If the French Enlightenment tends to advance this-worldly happiness as the highest good for human beings more insistently than the Enlightenment elsewhere, then Rousseau's voice is, in this as in other respects, a discordant voice in that context.
Liberalism insists that we don't have to take everything to the legislature, or even to the street, to fight sadism or advance human happiness; we do a lot at our kitchen tables and conferences and clubs, broadly speaking.
This, too, I shall tell Father, she thought, advancing through a blue mist of happiness, amid which the street lamps were coming alight like precious stones.
The U.S. performance should also be assessed against the ideals the new country set for itself — namely, advancing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The companies that have been the most dedicated to cultivating and advancing these things in the past year have seen employee happiness soar.
Nor did it reflect the trials, pains and losses of the nameless immigrants who deferred their own happiness to advance the Zionist cause.
The happiness of his marriage offered some comfort, of course, but as for making money and advancing himself - that now seemed impossible.
