Conceptions of Happiness
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Conceptions of Happiness

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Conceptions of Happiness

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Hinduism
  9. 2 Dionysus
  10. 3 Lao-Tzu
  11. 4 Gautama The Buddha
  12. 5 Plato
  13. 6 Aristotle
  14. 7 The Qôhéleth
  15. 8 Epicurus
  16. 9 Zeno and Epictetus
  17. 10 Saint Augustine
  18. 11 Abû Hâmid Al-Ghazâlî
  19. 12 Saint Thomas Aquinas
  20. 13 Benedict Spinoza
  21. 14 Immanuel Kant
  22. 15 Jeremy Bentham
  23. 16 Arthur Schopenhauer
  24. 17 Max Stirner
  25. 18 John Stuart Mill
  26. 19 Karl Marx
  27. 20 Friedrich Nietzsche
  28. 21 Sigmund Freud
  29. 22 Hermann Hesse
  30. 23 Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
  31. 24 Burrhus F. Skinner
  32. 25 Ayn Rand
  33. 26 Albert Camus
  34. Epilogue
  35. Index