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Happiness Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 0195321405

ISBN-13: 9780195321401

Edition: 2007

Authors: Steven M. Cahn, Christine Vitrano

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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 Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Part II explores the work of contemporary ethical theorists, including Julia Annas,…    
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 289
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Historical sources
The Republic (selections)
The Nicomachean ethics (selections)
Letter to Menoeceus
Leading doctrines
On the happy life (selections)
The happy life (selections)
Summa Contra gentiles (selections)
Leviathan (selections)
Upon the love of our neighbour
The sceptic
An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (selections)
Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals (selections)
Critique of pure reason (selections)
On the variety and suffering of life (selections)
Utilitarianism (selections)
Happiness and duty
On the uses and disadvantages of history for life (selections)
Forlornness
Contemporary theories
Pleasure and happiness
Why hedonism is fake
Attitudinal and episodic happiness
Happiness and time
Two conceptions of happiness
Virtue ethics
The experience machine
Happiness as achievement
Virtue and eudaimonism
Happiness and immorality
Happiness and morality