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Affective Autonomy. Having pleasure, enjoying an exciting life, emotional well-being. These good things come to us during our leisure hours, identified as recreational activities. Low affective autonomy is characterized by concern with others’ evaluations of self and their expectations and unhappiness.
The things which … are esteemed as the greatest good of all, … can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Benedict Spinoza, Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (1677) l, 3.
The best portion of a good man’s life,–
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and love.
–William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.
The thing that numbs the heart is this:
That men cannot devise
Some scheme of life to banish fear
That lurks in most men’s eyes.
–James Norman Hall, Fear
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Ferriss, A.L. (2010). Affective Autonomy. In: Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9148-2_4
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