عنوان

Happiness is overrated /

(Number (ISBN

1417503467

(Number (ISBN

9781417503469

Erroneous ISBN

0742533611

Erroneous ISBN

074253362X

Erroneous ISBN

9780742533615

Erroneous ISBN

9780742533622

Number

b740086

Title Proper

Happiness is overrated /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Raymond Angelo Belliotti.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham, Md. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.

Text of Note

I: Greek, Roman, and Christian happiness -- 1. Happiness as moral and intellectual virtue -- 2. Happiness as flourishing -- 3. Happiness as radical asceticism -- 4. Happiness a hedonism -- 5. Happiness as tranquility -- 6. Happiness as worldly transcendence -- II: Happiness reconceived -- 1. Happiness as morally earned -- 2. Happiness as collective achievement -- 3. Happiness as the greatest good for the greatest number -- 4. Happiness as illusion -- 5. Happiness as positive psychological state -- III: Contemporary philosophical views -- 1. Philosophy joins hands with social science -- 2. Happiness as positive self-appraisal -- 3. Happiness as accurate, positive self-appraisal -- 4. Happiness as connection to objective, preexisting good -- 5. What we learn from contemporary philosophers -- 6. Can everyone be happy? -- 7. Should everyone be happy? -- 8. How much suffering is compatible with happiness? -- 9. Why happiness is overrated -- IV: The paths to happiness -- 1. Adjust expectations -- 2. Nurture relationships -- 3. Be optimistic and appreciative -- 4. Have faith -- 5. Make peace, not war -- 6. Be goal-oriented -- 7. Prioritize -- 8. Use leisure wisely, energize the senses, eat and exercise properly -- 9. Go with the flow -- 10. Be lucky -- 11. Forms of happiness -- V: The meaning of life -- 1. What does it mean to say life has meaning? -- 2. The existential problem -- 3. The religious solution -- A. Eastern religion -- B. Western religion -- C. Assessment of religion -- 4. Cosmic meaninglessness -- 5. The construction of contingent meaning -- A. Nietzsche -- B. Camus -- 6. Telescopes and slinky toys -- 7. Meaning & significance -- 8. Death.

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Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

Happiness is overrated.

Conduct of life.

Happiness.

Bonheur.

Morale pratique.

Conduct of life.

Geluk.

Happiness.

PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.

PHILOSOPHY-- Social.

PHI-- 005000

PHI-- 034000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Belliotti, Raymond A.,1948-

Date of Transaction

20201204010252.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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