Plato warned that some pleasures separate us from reality
The contemporary obsession with feeling good might mean we’re losing sight of what makes life genuinely meaningful
by Derek van Zoonen
Derek van Zoonen
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo, Norway
Derek van Zoonen is a postdoc in the interdisciplinary research project Modeling Human Happiness at the University of Oslo, Norway. He also works as a (philosophical) counsellor, and trains in the Hakomi Method – a mindfulness-based, body-oriented type of psychotherapy.
Written by Derek van Zoonen