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Happiness : Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy

ISBN: 9780195321401 | 0195321405
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/16/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
Happiness has long been a focus of attention for philosophers as well as psychologists. This volume, the only collection devoted to the subject from the standpoint of philosophy, offers twenty-seven classic and contemporary readings exploring the nature of happiness. Part I, a survey of the ways happiness has been treated throughout the history of ethics, includes writings by Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Seneca, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Butler, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mi... MORE
Historical sourcesp. 1
The Republic (selections)p. 3
The Nicomachean ethics (selections)p. 19
Letter to Menoeceusp. 34
Leading doctrinesp. 37
On the happy life (selections)p. 41
The happy life (selections)p. 51
Summa Contra gentiles (selections)p. 60
Leviathan (selections)p. 68
Upon the love of our n... MOREp. 77
The scepticp. 86
An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (selections)p. 99
Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals (selections)p. 103
Critique of pure reason (selections)p. 113
On the variety and suffering of life (selections)p. 114
Utilitarianism (selections)p. 121
Happiness and dutyp. 144
On the uses and disadvantages of history for life (selections)p. 152
Forlornnessp. 157
Contemporary theoriesp. 161
Pleasure and happinessp. 163
Why hedonism is fakep. 173
Attitudinal and episodic happinessp. 179
Happiness and timep. 193
Two conceptions of happinessp. 201
Virtue ethicsp. 222
The experience machinep. 236
Happiness as achievementp. 238
Virtue and eudaimonismp. 245
Happiness and immoralityp. 261
Happiness and moralityp. 267
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