عنوان

A Brief history of happiness

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

A Brief history of happiness

خط فهرست نويسي و خط اصلي شناسه

Do we really know what happiness is? Should happiness play such a dominant role in shaping and orienting our lives? And how can we deal with conflicts between the various things that make us happy? In this "Brief History of Happiness", philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of attempts to answer such questions. White considers the ways in which major thinkers from antiquity to the present day have treated happiness: from Plato's notion of the harmony of the soul and Aristotle's account of well-being or flourishing as the aim of an ethical life, to Aquinas' idea of the vision of the divine essence, Bentham's hedonistic calculus, and the modern-day decision-theoretic notion of preference. We also encounter skepticism about the very idea of a complete and consistent concept of happiness in the writings of Nietzsche and Freud. Throughout, White relates questions about happiness to central concerns in ethics and practical philosophy.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Malden, MA

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Blackwell Pub.

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2006

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 194 p.; 23 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]181[-186( and index

متن يادداشت

ISBN: 1405115203

متن يادداشت

Nicholas White

متن يادداشت

1

متن يادداشت

Introducing the subject -- Conflicts, perspectives, and the identification of happiness -- Pleasure, hedonism, and the measurement of happiness -- Happiness as structure and harmony -- Morality, happiness, and conflict -- Happiness, fact, and value -- Doing without the concept

عنصر شناسه ای

، Happiness -- History

شماره رده

شماره رده

شماره رده

تاريخ

2491-

عنصر شناسه اي

White, Nicholas P.

کد نقش

AU

عنصر شناسه اي

TI