Purpose. The paper is aimed to explicate a recently emerging anthropological model of homo eudaimonicus from its secular framework perspective. Theoretical basis. Secularity considered in three aspects with reference Taylor’s and Habermas’ ideas: as common public sphere, phenomenological experience living Secular Age, background for happiness become major value among other values the Age Authen...

Our time preferences deviate systematically from that of Homo economicus. They seem to be driven by a form mental zooming, where higher and more distant amounts induce holistic perspective in contrast smaller near future amounts. We model zooming as variable asset integration ask whether this can explain the observed variation discount rates experiments. It can. Equally important, for both magn...

The rational choice model pioneered by economists is rapidly becoming the standard approach throughout the behavioral sciences. The model is attractive as it allows the mathematical formalization of an essential truth, namely that when people act, they are generally trying to accomplish something, and their efforts are more or less effectively oriented to this end. However, its acceptance in ot...