The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good LifeSimon and Schuster, 14. 11. 2006 - Počet stran: 256 Unhappy is the story of happiness. More than two thousand years ago, when the ancient Greeks first pondered what constitutes "the good life," happiness was considered a civic virtue that demanded a lifetime's cultivation. Not just mere enjoyment of pleasure and mere avoidance of suffering, true happiness was an achievement, not a birthright. Now, in an age of instant gratification and infinite distraction, history professor Richard Schoch takes a refreshingly contemplative look at a question that's as vital today as ever: What does it mean to be happy? Schoch consults some of history's greatest thinkers -- from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas to Buddha -- in his quest to understand happiness in all its hard-won forms. Packed with three thousand years' worth of insights, many long forgotten, The Secrets of Happiness is a breath of ancient wisdom for anyone who yearns for the good life. |
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... . The Hidden Face of God (Judaism) Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index 169 192 209 215 217 223 233 THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS INTRODUCTION Unhappy is the story of Schoch_Secrets_0i-x_PTR 8/31/06 10:28 AM Page viii.
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... God, asked much the same. The anguished Seneca, going one step further, answered this seemingly unanswerable question. Through bombastic and emotionally overwrought adaptations of Greek tragedies he rendered in dramatic form the abrupt ...
... God, asked much the same. The anguished Seneca, going one step further, answered this seemingly unanswerable question. Through bombastic and emotionally overwrought adaptations of Greek tragedies he rendered in dramatic form the abrupt ...
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... God. Ghazali recovered from his spiritual crisis not through his own strength but through a transcendent one: the ... God's presence. The Sufis call this experience dhawq, “taste,” which nicely captures the sensuous immediacy of their ...
... God. Ghazali recovered from his spiritual crisis not through his own strength but through a transcendent one: the ... God's presence. The Sufis call this experience dhawq, “taste,” which nicely captures the sensuous immediacy of their ...
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... gods on top of Mount Olympus because they were content to ignore what happened below. No doubt Seneca worshipped the Roman equivalent of the Greek deities, but he did not call on them in his moment of need. On the face of things, little ...
... gods on top of Mount Olympus because they were content to ignore what happened below. No doubt Seneca worshipped the Roman equivalent of the Greek deities, but he did not call on them in his moment of need. On the face of things, little ...
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... God's grace. In the chapters to come, we shall see all these differences and more. But the differences arise not because the paths to happiness are insufficient or incomplete (those demerits belong, unfortunately, to us) but because ...
... God's grace. In the chapters to come, we shall see all these differences and more. But the differences arise not because the paths to happiness are insufficient or incomplete (those demerits belong, unfortunately, to us) but because ...
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Pleasure Is Good The Epicureans | 46 |
CONQUERING DESIRE | 67 |
The Enlightened One Buddhism | 93 |
TRANSCENDING REASON | 115 |
The Alchemy of Happiness Islam | 141 |
Contents | 142 |
ENDURING SUFFERING | 167 |
The Hidden Face of God Judaism | 192 |
Conclusion | 209 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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