Happiness in the moral maze

The more we try to create it, the more elusive it seems to become

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we tackled happiness. We all presumably want it. But what exactly is it? Well, no-one seemed to know — or to be more precise, all our witnesses defined it differently.

The peg for our discussion was a suggestion by neuroscientists at University College, London that the answer could lie in the equation: (t)=w0 +w1∑j=1…