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The central aim of this chapter is to relate the four temperaments to the Harmony perspective on human nature that was introduced in the opening chapter. I suggest that human life consists in substantial part of quicksilver transitions from Harmony in one mood to Harmony in another mood. In what follows, I propose an eightfold division of Harmony: four temperaments times two forms of thinking/feeling. Each temperament can Harmonize in an intuitive System 1 mode or in a reasoning System 2 mode. In that eightfold array of Harmony, I identify one weak link. Modern humans are strong, I contend, in creating seven kinds of Harmony Games but are much less effective in creating one: Sanguine System 2 Harmony. As much as we believe in the Sanguine as the pinnacle of our aspirations, we do not intellectually respect self-help books, and other guides to happiness, even as we do respect calculating, compliance-oriented, and argumentative modes of reason.
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© 2015 Wayne Nordness Eastman
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Eastman, W.N. (2015). The Harmony Games. In: Why Business Ethics Matters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430441_3
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