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Happiness for Humans

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Outline: In this book, the author takes a fresh look at happiness from a practical perspective: the perspective of someone trying to solve the wonderful problem of how to give himself a good life. From this perspective, 'happiness' is the name of a solution to that problem for practical deliberation. The author's approach to happiness falls within a tradition that reaches back to ancient Greek and Roman philosophers - a tradition now called 'eudaimonism'. Beginning with Aristotle's seminal discussion of the role of happiness in practical reasoning, the author asks what sort of good happiness would have to be in order to play the role in our practical eonomies that it actually does play. Looking at happiness from this perspective, the author argues that happiness is a life of activity, with three main features: it is acting for the sake of ends we can live for, and living for them wisely; it is fulfilling for us, both as humans ad as unique individuals; and it is inextricable from our connections with the particular persons, pursuits, and places that make us who we are. By returning to this ancient pespective on happiness, the author finds new directions for contemporary thought about the good lives we want for ourselves.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

171.3 R911h

Penerbit

London, United Kingdom : Oxford Univesity Press., 2012

Deskripsi Fisik

283

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780199583683

Klasifikasi

171.3

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First Edition

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