Ignacio L. Götz

Conceptions of Happiness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked if one is happy, people answer according to their own conception of happiness. Their conception may differ from that of the interrogator, who may not be unaware of this fact. People may also deem themselves happy differently at different times in their lives, depending upon their circumstances and on their own estimate of themselves. Therefore, to think that there is just one meaning of happiness spanning a lifetime does not correspond to the facts of life as we know and experience them. This book presents many views of happiness as espoused by their original founders and developers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761849964
• Artikelnr.: 38225907

Autorenporträt

Ignacio L. Götz is the Lawrence A. Stessin Distinguished Professor Emeritus at New College of Hofstra University. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles in philosophy and religion, including Technology and the Spirit (2001), Faith, Humor, and Paradox (2002), and Jesus the Jew(2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Hinduism
Chapter 4 2. Dionysus
Chapter 5 3. Lao-Tzu
Chapter 6 4. Gautama the Buddha
Chapter 7 5. Plato
Chapter 8 6. Aristotle
Chapter 9 7. The Qôhéleth
Chapter 10 8. Epicurus
Chapter 11 9. Zeno and Epictetus
Chapter 12 10. Saint Augustine
Chapter 13 11. Abû Hâmid Al-Ghazâlî
Chapter 14 12. Saint Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 15 13. Benedict Spinoza
Chapter 16 14. Immanuel Kant
Chapter 17 15. Jeremy Bentham
Chapter 18 16. Arthur Schopenhauer
Chapter 19 17. Max Stirner
Chapter 20 18. John Stuart Mill
Chapter 21 19. Karl Marx
Chapter 22 20. Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter 23 21. Sigmund Freud
Chapter 24 22. Hermann Hesse
Chapter 25 23. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Chapter 26 24. Burrhus F. Skinner
Chapter 27 25. Ayn Rand
Chapter 28 26. Albert Camus
Chapter 29 Epilogue
Chapter 30 Index