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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... job, prop up the bar with your friends, and then go home and have sex. Happiness: the secret revealed! Happiness is also a growth industry. Self-help books generate $1 billion in annual sales, and the global market for antidepressants ...
... job, prop up the bar with your friends, and then go home and have sex. Happiness: the secret revealed! Happiness is also a growth industry. Self-help books generate $1 billion in annual sales, and the global market for antidepressants ...
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... Job, the suffering servant of the Hebrew 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 ...
... Job, the suffering servant of the Hebrew 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 ...
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... job, leave our family, and move to a new country, yet we can still appreciate why a man in Baghdad nearly a thousand years ago felt compelled to do just that. We can catch in him a glimpse of ourselves. In Ghazali's dilemma we recognize ...
... job, leave our family, and move to a new country, yet we can still appreciate why a man in Baghdad nearly a thousand years ago felt compelled to do just that. We can catch in him a glimpse of ourselves. In Ghazali's dilemma we recognize ...
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... job: to create the conditions that allow all of us to seek happiness in whatever way we think best. So Bentham wrote his Introduction with politicians in mind (hence the numbing bureaucratic tone), and he was keen to give them ...
... job: to create the conditions that allow all of us to seek happiness in whatever way we think best. So Bentham wrote his Introduction with politicians in mind (hence the numbing bureaucratic tone), and he was keen to give them ...
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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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The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life Richard Schoch Náhled není k dispozici. - 2008 |
The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life Richard W. Schoch Náhled není k dispozici. - 2007 |
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