Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Happiness Is Overrated (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Happiness Is Overrated begins with an historical overview of the development of the concept of 'happiness' from Plato to contemporary writers, highlighting the best scholarship emerging from philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Belliotti includes practical advice on how to attain happiness and addresses issues centered on the meaning of life. Happiness, he argues, is not the greatest personal good, or even a great good in itself. In fact, sometimes happiness isn't a good at all. If we pursue worthwhile, exemplary lives and find happiness along the way, then we are lucky. If we don't, then we can take pride and derive satisfaction from a life well lived. Ultimately, the greatest personal good is realized in leading a robustly meaningful, valuable life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216224334
• Artikelnr.: 75140955

Autorenporträt

Raymond Angelo Belliotti is State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and author of twenty-six books, including Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi and Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style: From Roman Imperialists to Sicilian Magistrates, both published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Greek, Roman, and Christian Happiness
Chapter 2 Happiness Reconceived
Chapter 3 Contemporary Philosophical Views
Chapter 4 The Paths to Happiness
Chapter 5 The Meaning of Life