Possible Research Topics
General Questions about Happiness
What is the definition of happiness?
What is a happy life and what does it consist of?
Is it an easy or difficult life?
Why is it inseparable from truth?
Is it an end or a means?
Does my past or my personal history condition it?
Is it something that happens to us or something that we create?
Can we choose to be happy? Can I restart and build from now on a happy life?
Are we all called to be happy?
What is the relationship between happiness and faith?
What is the difference between natural and supernatural happiness?
Happiness in Relation to Various Fields
Well-Being
How does happiness differ from well-being?
Can we choose our state of well-being?
Why do pleasure, wealth and power not satisfy people?
Is poverty necessarily a cause of unhappiness?
How can one help the sick to be happy?
Are societies with higher economic well-being necessarily the happiest?
Hobbies
What is the role of sport in human flourishing?
Is competition a necessary element of sport?
Does the good life include many or few hobbies?
How should one fill times of rest?
The Others
Is it possible to make others happy?
Is giving oneself to others and thinking about them compatible with or opposed to one's own happiness?
How are individual and social happiness related?
To what extent do we depend on things or other people?
Do I become happy through or in spite of others?
Is online friendship possible?
To what extent is true friendship necessary for a successful life?
What are the requirements for happiness in the family?
Why are large families usually joyful?
Is happiness possible in youth?
How to live courtship well?
Virtues & Freedom
How does happiness differ from well-being?
Can we choose our state of well-being?
Why do pleasure, wealth and power not satisfy people?
Is poverty necessarily a cause of unhappiness?
How can one help the sick to be happy?
Are societies with higher economic well-being necessarily the happiest?
Pain
How does happiness differ from well-being?
Can we choose our state of well-being?
Why do pleasure, wealth and power not satisfy people?
Is poverty necessarily a cause of unhappiness?
How can one help the sick to be happy?
Are societies with higher economic well-being necessarily the happiest?
Medicine
What is the relationship between happiness and physical health, mental health, stress, etc.?
Can people with disabilities be happy?
Society & Law
How does one promote happiness in relation to private property and public property?
Do we best achieve social harmony by reward or punishment?
Criminal law: punish to make the guilty happy?
How can we help marginalized communities (elderly, sick, poor, slaves, immigrants, etc.)?
Is war compatible with happiness?
Is politics a service in favor of common flourishing?
Work
Does teleworking promote happiness?
Individual work and teamwork: how to achieve a balance?
To what extent does vocation and professional enthusiasm condition our happiness?
Should the company be concerned about the happiness of its employees?
Does happiness motivate entrepreneurship?
Communication
How does happiness appear in advertising and marketing?
How is it communicated? Can one use social networks with temperance?
How do we talk about happiness in language?
Famous people look happy: are they really so? Does technology make us happy?
Art
How do literature, painting, film, etc. depict happiness?
What music, art, painting, etc., makes us happiest?
Why does everyone have his or her own style of film?
Is the happiness that is usually shown in the arts in accordance with reality?
Architecture
What are the elements of an authentic home?
Neuro-architecture: how does the layout, beauty and color of cities influence citizens' lives?
Urban life: does it promote happiness and do smart cities contribute to it?