THE QUEST FOR THE GOOD LIFE: ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS ON HAPPINESS torrent

Author: Oyvind Rabbas, Eyjolfur K. Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim, Miira Tuominen
Edition: 1 edition
Publication Date: December 1, 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0198746989
ISBN-13: 978-0198746980
Pages: 308 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 1.7M

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How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the object of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium. While the centrality of the notion of happiness in ancient ethics is well known, this book is unique in that it focuses directly on this notion, as it appears in the ancient texts.

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