Ignacio L. Götz

Conceptions of Happiness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. This book explores many views of happiness as espoused by their original founders and developers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780761849957
• ISBN-10: 0761849955
• Artikelnr.: 28031213

Autorenporträt

Ignacio L. Götz is the Lawrence A. Stessin Distinguished Professor Emeritus at New College of Hofstra University. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles in philosophy and religion, including Technology and the Spirit (2001), Faith, Humor, and Paradox (2002), and Jesus the Jew(2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. Hinduism Chapter 4 2.
Dionysus Chapter 5 3. Lao-Tzu Chapter 6 4. Gautama the Buddha Chapter 7 5.
Plato Chapter 8 6. Aristotle Chapter 9 7. The Qôhéleth Chapter 10 8.
Epicurus Chapter 11 9. Zeno and Epictetus Chapter 12 10. Saint Augustine
Chapter 13 11. Abû Hâmid Al-Ghazâlî Chapter 14 12. Saint Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 15 13. Benedict Spinoza Chapter 16 14. Immanuel Kant Chapter 17 15.
Jeremy Bentham Chapter 18 16. Arthur Schopenhauer Chapter 19 17. Max
Stirner Chapter 20 18. John Stuart Mill Chapter 21 19. Karl Marx Chapter 22
20. Friedrich Nietzsche Chapter 23 21. Sigmund Freud Chapter 24 22. Hermann
Hesse Chapter 25 23. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Chapter 26 24. Burrhus F.
Skinner Chapter 27 25. Ayn Rand Chapter 28 26. Albert Camus Chapter 29
Epilogue Chapter 30 Index