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The Talmudic Doctrine of "The Benefit of a Pleasure": Psychological Well-Being in Talmudic Literature
Ist Teil von
The American journal of economics and sociology, 2007-10, Vol.66 (4), p.661-680
Ort / Verlag
Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Quelle
EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In this article, we attempt to analyze the Talmudic notion of well-being in the light of modern hedonic psychology. First, we examine the thoughts of Hebrew "wisdom" and Greek "sophia" concerning the phenomenon of happiness. We then discuss the Talmudic doctrine of "optimality," a concept similar to that of the Pareto improvement. This is followed by a discourse deemed to be of extraordinary significance—the idea of "mutual benefit," which may be described as "super optimum." Thereafter, the doctrine of the "Benefit of a Pleasure" is demonstrated to be a "pleasure-measure" of reciprocal and nonreciprocal happiness. Finally, it is argued, that although Plato, according to Professor Lowry, detailed precise "tradeoffs" between degrees of pleasure, pain, and time, it was applied to "moral values" only, whereas the Talmudists posited the existence of a "psychoeconomic" category, in which pleasure itself is equated with money.