I think we would learn more about how to live from grappling with the great ideas and questions that have have humans struggled with since time immemorial, unless about looking at quote research. Adam Smith can teach you how to be happy. I think Aristotle can teach youHow to be happy and how to have a meaningful life. And then finally, we have this whole question that Agnes Callard wrote about and has talked here about on econ talk about aspiration. The idea that they knew talk about it in passing in the book that maybe we should be aspiring to be somebody we're not and to think they were not now and somebody we could become.
Philosopher and author Daniel Haybron of St. Louis University talks about his book, Happiness, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Happiness turns out to be a little more complicated than it sounds. Haybron discusses the good life and different philosophical perspectives on how to achieve happiness.