During his first journey to Sicily, Plato engaged in a philosophical dialogue with Dionysius the Elder, the tyrant of Syracuse. Although brief, this dialogue ultimately cost him his freedom, as Dionysius later sold Plato into slavery.
Plato’s decision to travel...
The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle is considered one of the greatest thinkers in the world, and his conception of happiness remains strikingly relevant today.
The questions Aristotle posed are the same questions most people continue to ask themselves: What kind...
A new international study challenges the idea that happiness can be traced to a single cause. The new research reveals that happiness can come from within or from external factors.
Published in Nature Human Behavior, the research analyzed long-term data...
Greece dropped 17 places in the World Happiness Report released on Thursday to mark the UN’s International Day of Happiness. Greece is 81st on the list, while Cyprus is in 67th place.
Experts use responses from people in more than...
A day on the beach is one of those things that bring an effortless smile to most people's faces. The crashing sound of the waves, the warmth of the sun and the feel of the powdery sand under your...
Europe, especially the European Union, is one of the most prosperous regions in the world. Yet many young people living within its borders face a happiness recession, with experts raising increasing concerns about their mental health. While in a...
More than 400 studies have been recently analyzed to reveal how people feel throughout their lives. It may seem easy to evaluate happiness throughout life, but it has puzzled experts for quite a long time.
Now, a team of researchers...
A new study has shed light on the connection between happiness and wealth with high life satisfaction being reported among small-scale societies, mostly Indigenous peoples, with low incomes. This dispels the myth that material wealth alone makes people happy...
Finland is a happy place! For the sixth year in a row, the country has been named the happiest in the world in the annual World Happiness Report 2023.
The Nordic country and its neighbors Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway...
Society prizes both intelligence and happiness. Yet scientists have shown that, for some reason, the two simply cannot coincide. As Ernest Hemingway, the highly prolific, intelligent American journalist and novelist himself said, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest...
