Conceptions of HappinessThis book 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. This book explores many views of happiness as espoused by their original founders and developers. |
Contents
Hinduism | 1 |
Dionysus | 11 |
LaoTzu | 19 |
Gautama the Buddha | 25 |
Plato | 37 |
Aristotle | 45 |
The Qôhéleth | 53 |
Epicurus | 59 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | 131 |
Max Stirner | 139 |
John Stuart Mill | 143 |
Karl Marx | 153 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 161 |
Sigmund Freud | 167 |
Hermann Hesse | 175 |
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin | 183 |
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