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Signature strengths refer to the character strengths most essential to our identity.

Values are internalised goals and desires that are socially and morally approved.

Resources are the systems available in our environment that help us to live well.

Trait gratitude refers to momentary feelings of gratitude that an individual experiences in response to specific situations.

Devdutt Patnaik’s talk on “Not Quite Avataar” specifically points out:

The absence of heroism and avatar in the Indian scriptures

The presence of heroes and villains all around us and the ways they can be tackled

Developing the ethics of love, compassion, and empathy toward others

Developing an appropriate sense of right and wrong and good and evil.

Understanding the ways of pleasure and gratification in life

Which of the following options is true according to Happiness theorists/scholars:

There is no difference between pleasure and happiness

If money is your passion, pursuing it mindlessly will give a person happiness.

There is no way to be happy. Buddha has already clarified it.

There are ways of enhancing happiness in one’s life.

Economic well-being and development should be preferred to any happiness.

In the SPIRE model, “P” stands for:

Pursuing money

Pleasant Emotions

Pleasure Paradox

Preferred and Meaningful life

Physical well-being

What did not perplex Pattanaik when he tried to understand the Eastern and Western ways of looking at good and evil?

The West has adopted the Eastern concept of avatar cosmetically.

In the Western depiction, the hero can never be the villain.

According to Eastern perception, the hero can also be the villain.

The act of slaying can also be the act of liberation.

There is no synonym for the term ‘evil.’

Secular humanism broadly speaks about:

Developing a sense of robust personality for facing the challenges of society

Understanding the inner character strengths to build a pleasing personality

Developing the ethics of love, compassion, and empathy toward others

Developing an appropriate sense of right and wrong and good and evil.

Understanding the ways of pleasure and gratification in life

Matthieu Ricard talks about happiness in a distinctive sense. In his talk, which one of the habits did he stress upon for achieving 'happiness'?

Gaining a good physical body

Developing a nice sense of humour

Focussing on brain development in times of isolation

Practicing meditation as a way to inculcate a deep connection with inner strengths

Developing excellent rapport with enemies

Which school of thought do Charvakas, Epicureans and Cyrenaics seem to be associated with?

Consequentialism

Eudaemonism

Utilitarianism

Hedonism

Humanism

Which of the following is true of the Paradox of Hedonism?

All pleasures ultimately lead to pain

Deliberately seeking pleasure may be self-defeating

Pleasure only increases pleasure.

Pleasure is the ultimate truth of life, and one should follow it vigorously

If you don't think of pleasure, you can't get it

Which of the following is true of free will?

It refers to Indian Saints' capability to change their appearance at their will

Indian Constitution provides more free will to the rich than the poor

It means Avatars are free to do anything without attracting any sin

It reflects the divinity of character

Human beings can make rational choices