The same combination of empirical, theoretical, and normative considerations has served to
generate answers to the question of why life is worth living. Goals concerning love, work, and play
are connected to vital needs of human beings that can be identified through empirical investigation.
This research is often part of the social sciences, using empirical techniques established in
psychology, economics, and sociology. But insights are increasingly streaming from the investigation
of the biological mechanisms operating in human brains. We know more and more about how
activities are marked as rewarding through interactions of brain areas involved in cognition and
emotion, such as the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the nucleus accumbens. These investigations
enable us not only to use the social sciences to identify that love, work, and play matter to people, but
also to use neuroscience to learn how they matter to people through brain functioning. We thus get an
understanding of how the goals related to these realms of life are tied to the deep objective interests
of human beings.
The same combination of empirical, theoretical, and normative considerations has served togenerate answers to the question of why life is worth living. Goals concerning love, work, and playare connected to vital needs of human beings that can be identified through empirical investigation.This research is often part of the social sciences, using empirical techniques established inpsychology, economics, and sociology. But insights are increasingly streaming from the investigationof the biological mechanisms operating in human brains. We know more and more about howactivities are marked as rewarding through interactions of brain areas involved in cognition andemotion, such as the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the nucleus accumbens. These investigationsenable us not only to use the social sciences to identify that love, work, and play matter to people, butalso to use neuroscience to learn how they matter to people through brain functioning. We thus get anunderstanding of how the goals related to these realms of life are tied to the deep objective interestsof human beings.
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