Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 375 pages)
ISBN:
9789004254220
Series Statement:
Studies in moral philosophy v. 5
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Socrates: Happiness, Wisdom and Fruitful Doubt -- Chapter 2 Plato on Pleasure and Happiness: The Problem of Clocks and Calendars -- Chapter 3 Aristotle: Happiness, Virtue and Contemplation -- Chapter 4 Boethius: Philosophy as Therapy -- Chapter 5 Thomas Aquinas: Happy but not Human -- Chapter 6 Spinoza: On Becoming Naturally Happy -- Chapter 7 Leibniz: Hyperkinetic Happiness -- Chapter 8 John Locke: An Experimentalist’s Approach to Happiness -- Chapter 9 Immanuel Kant: A Will to be Moral and a Wish to be Happy -- Chapter 10 John Stuart Mill: The Refined and Happy Hedonist -- Chapter 11 Recent Philosophies of Happiness: A Sampler -- Chapter 12 Positive Psychologists and a Suspect Science of Happiness -- Index.
Content:
In Philosophy as Frustration: Happiness Found and Feigned from Greek Antiquity to Present Bruce Silver analyzes important views of happiness from Greek antiquity into the present. He argues that in many cases philosophers and positive psychologists do a poor job of defending the views of happiness they promote. Too often the philosophical approaches to what constitutes happiness are at odds with themselves and with possibilities for living happily. In some cases readers discover that the phrase “happy human being” is oxymoronic and that the most a person can expect is a life that is a measure of calm
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004254213
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Silver, Bruce S Philosophy as frustration Boston : Brill, 2013
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004254220
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