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March 2019
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This chapter focuses on objective quality of life or well‐being, or to use Veenhoven's phrasing, “the degree to which a life meets explicit standards of the good life, as assessed by an impartial outsider”. Objective quality of life is to be distinguished from subjective quality of life, or “self‐appraisal based on implicit criteria”. Absence of personal freedom or slavery receives hardly any attention in the sources of Greco‐Roman Egypt. In ancient times, there was no notion of fundamental human rights. Slavery also did not disappear with the advent of Christianity. Even priests and monks owned, bought, and sold slaves. To date, government performance in Greco‐Roman Egypt has been evaluated on the basis of a limited and variable set of determinants; the choice of these determinants is sometimes justified within the framework of a theoretical model.
December 2018
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HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE
The cross-cultural application of happiness studies has led to many interesting results over the last few decades. The merits of this field of research are widely recognized, resulting for instance in government strategies taking into account the scores of the World Happiness Index, rather than just Gross National Product and other economic parameters. However, not all fields of study related to sociology have completely caught up with recent developments, in particularly historical studies. Some pilot studies with a limited scope on applying happiness research to periods of time and regions in the past have already been executed with promising results. This paper proposes a happiness index for Hellenistic Egypt (332-30 BC), taking into account recent developments in the field of sociology and the specificity of the source material for this particular period and region. The goal is not to measure absolute happiness in a quantitative study involving scales, but studying government impact on the well-being of Egypt's inhabitants through predetermined parameters derived from studies on cross-cultural determinants of happiness.