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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... else's beliefs, still we can learn from them. I suspect that this answer may be unsatisfying to some readers (no doubt because it appears to smack of a politically correct piety), but I believe that if we approach the pursuit of ...
... else's beliefs, still we can learn from them. I suspect that this answer may be unsatisfying to some readers (no doubt because it appears to smack of a politically correct piety), but I believe that if we approach the pursuit of ...
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... else's. But it was also Aristotle who owned up to the disconcerting fact that happiness does not come to us easily. Just as “one swallow does not make a summer,” he reasoned, one pleasant day does not make a whole life happy. And so in ...
... else's. But it was also Aristotle who owned up to the disconcerting fact that happiness does not come to us easily. Just as “one swallow does not make a summer,” he reasoned, one pleasant day does not make a whole life happy. And so in ...
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... else (for that is what it means to choose), not just for today but for all the tomorrows that they have left together. When couples renew their marriage vows it is not, obviously, because their vows have expired in the way that a ...
... else (for that is what it means to choose), not just for today but for all the tomorrows that they have left together. When couples renew their marriage vows it is not, obviously, because their vows have expired in the way that a ...
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... else. You probably will not read this book to absorb vast amounts of history, philosophy, and theology (although it is there for the absorptionTHE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS 22 minded). You will read it, more Schoch_Secrets_1-232_PTR 8/31/06 ...
... else. You probably will not read this book to absorb vast amounts of history, philosophy, and theology (although it is there for the absorptionTHE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS 22 minded). You will read it, more Schoch_Secrets_1-232_PTR 8/31/06 ...
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... else. We cannot charge the man with laziness, as the introduction ran to more than three hundred pages. Still, Bentham was reluctant to publish it, knowing that he was capable of even more. His less cautious friend, George Wilson, a ...
... else. We cannot charge the man with laziness, as the introduction ran to more than three hundred pages. Still, Bentham was reluctant to publish it, knowing that he was capable of even more. His less cautious friend, George Wilson, a ...
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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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