| A Brief History of Happiness Revised Edition Contributor(s): White, Nicholas P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1405115203 ISBN-13: 9781405115209 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: Do we really know what happiness is? Should happiness play such a dominant role in shaping and orienting our lives? And how can we deal with conflicts between the various things that make us happy? In this brief history of happiness, philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of attempts to answer such questions. White considers the ways in which major thinkers from antiquity to the present day have treated happiness: from Plato's notion of the harmony of the soul and Aristotle's account of well-being or flourishing as the aim of an ethical life, to Aquinas' idea of the vision of the divine essence, Bentham's hedonistic calculus, and the modern-day decision-theoretic notion of preference. We also encounter skepticism about the very idea of a complete and consistent concept of happiness in the writings of Nietzsche and Freud. Throughout, White relates questions about happiness to central concerns in ethics and practical philosophy. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Emotions |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 2005024028 |
| Series: Brief Histories of Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.54" W x 8.46" (0.55 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this brief history, philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of philosophical thought about happiness.
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