Good summary of happiness research and good links, but I don’t know about the hedonism versus eudaimonia part. Unless I’ve missed lots of hedonists, the position is mostly a straw man, and although people make a token attempt to define “eudaimonia” (and this is less a criticism of you than of the field in general) it’s not a natural category. More of a matter of calling short-lived shallow kinds of happiness we disapprove of “hedonist” and long-lasting kinds of socially acceptable happiness “eudaimonia” (okay, there are some things that fit squarely in one category or another, but also a lot of gray area). That makes a declaration like “eudaimonia is better than hedonism” less interesting than it might otherwise be.
Good summary of happiness research and good links, but I don’t know about the hedonism versus eudaimonia part. Unless I’ve missed lots of hedonists, the position is mostly a straw man, and although people make a token attempt to define “eudaimonia” (and this is less a criticism of you than of the field in general) it’s not a natural category. More of a matter of calling short-lived shallow kinds of happiness we disapprove of “hedonist” and long-lasting kinds of socially acceptable happiness “eudaimonia” (okay, there are some things that fit squarely in one category or another, but also a lot of gray area). That makes a declaration like “eudaimonia is better than hedonism” less interesting than it might otherwise be.