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Happiness is overrated /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: Greek, Roman, and Christian happiness
- 1. Happiness as moral and intellectual virtue
- 2. Happiness as flourishing
- 3. Happiness as radical asceticism
- 4. Happiness a hedonism
- 5. Happiness as tranquility
- 6. Happiness as worldly transcendence
- II: Happiness reconceived
- 1. Happiness as morally earned
- 2. Happiness as collective achievement
- 3. Happiness as the greatest good for the greatest number
- 4. Happiness as illusion
- 5. Happiness as positive psychological state
- III: Contemporary philosophical views
- 1. Philosophy joins hands with social science
- 2. Happiness as positive self-appraisal
- 3. Happiness as accurate, positive self-appraisal
- 4. Happiness as connection to objective, preexisting good
- 5. What we learn from contemporary philosophers
- 6. Can everyone be happy?
- 7. Should everyone be happy?
- 8. How much suffering is compatible with happiness?
- 9. Why happiness is overrated
- IV: The paths to happiness
- 1. Adjust expectations
- 2. Nurture relationships
- 3. Be optimistic and appreciative
- 4. Have faith
- 5. Make peace, not war
- 6. Be goal-oriented
- 7. Prioritize
- 8. Use leisure wisely, energize the senses, eat and exercise properly
- 9. Go with the flow
- 10. Be lucky
- 11. Forms of happiness
- V: The meaning of life
- 1. What does it mean to say life has meaning?
- 2. The existential problem
- 3. The religious solution
- A. Eastern religion
- B. Western religion
- C. Assessment of religion
- 4. Cosmic meaninglessness
- 5. The construction of contingent meaning
- A. Nietzsche
- B. Camus
- 6. Telescopes and slinky toys
- 7. Meaning & significance
- 8. Death.