Happiness : a philosopher's guide
Record details
- ISBN: 9781612194417 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1612194397 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781612194394 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
vi, 199 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, [2015]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Loving the life you lead -- In the garden of pleasures, with Aristotle and Epicurus -- Giving meaning to life -- Voltaire and the happy idiot -- Does every human being wish to be happy? -- Happiness is not of this world: Socrates, Jesus, Kant -- On the art of being oneself -- Schopenhauer: happiness lies in our sensibility -- Does money make us happy? -- The emotional brain -- On the art of being attentive...and dreaming -- We are what we think -- The time of a life -- Can we be happy without other people? -- The contagiousness of happiness -- Individual happiness and collective happiness -- Can the quest for happiness make us unhappy? -- From desire to boredom: when happiness is impossible -- The smile of the Buddha and Epictetus -- The laughter of Montaigne and Chuang Tzu -- The joy of Spinoza and Ma Anandamayi. |
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Subject: | Happiness Happiness |
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Homer Public Library | 152.42 LEN (Text) | 000121200 | Nonfiction | Available | - |