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The quest for the good life : ancient philosophers on happiness / edited by Øyvind Rabbås [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Ancient philosophers on happiness
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Happiness was a central focus of ancient philosophy: this volume traces conceptions of happiness through nearly a millennium, from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. The contributors address questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern.
- Contents:
- On happiness and godlikeness before Socrates / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
- Plato's defence of justice : the wrong kind of reason? / Julia Annas
- Wanting to do what is just in the Gorgias / Panos Dimas
- Eudaimonia, human nature, and normativity : reflections on Aristotle's project in Nicomachean Ethics Book I / Øyvind Rabbås
- Aristotle on happiness and old age / Hallvard Fossheim
- Aristotle on happiness and long life / Gabriel Richardson Lear
- Why is Aristotle's vicious person miserable? / Gösta Grönroos
- Epicurus on pleasure, desire, and friendship / Panos Dimas
- How feasible is the Stoic conception of eudaimonia? / Katerina Ierodiakonou
- The Pyrrhonian idea of a good life / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
- Plotinus' way of defining 'eudaimonia' in Ennead I 4 [46] 1-3 / Alexandrine Schniewind
- On happiness and time / Eyjólfur K. Emilsson
- Why do we need other people to be happy? : happiness and concern for others in Aspasius and Porphyry / Miira Tuominen
- Happiness in this life? : Augustine on the principle that virtue is self-sufficient for happiness / Christian Tornau.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 9, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-106402-5
- 0-19-180916-0
- 0-19-106401-7
- OCLC:
- 922581451
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