Philosophy as frustration : happiness found and feigned from Greek antiquity to the present /

Philosophy as frustration : happiness found and feigned from Greek antiquity to the present /

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 t...

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Main Author: Silver, Bruce S.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 5.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262492.

Subjects:

Happiness.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Social.

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Call Number: B105.H36 S55 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.