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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... feel about what they've just stopped doing. Back in the laboratory of happiness, technicians download these data and then plot a graph showing each participant's happiness peaks and troughs over time. In case the guinea pigs have tried ...
... feel about what they've just stopped doing. Back in the laboratory of happiness, technicians download these data and then plot a graph showing each participant's happiness peaks and troughs over time. In case the guinea pigs have tried ...
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... feeling good—enjoying life and wanting the feeling to be maintained.”1 So say the economists. In the genial patois of the researchers this is called “subjective well-feeling.” Those now in kindergarten, or who once were, will doubtless ...
... feeling good—enjoying life and wanting the feeling to be maintained.”1 So say the economists. In the genial patois of the researchers this is called “subjective well-feeling.” Those now in kindergarten, or who once were, will doubtless ...
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... feel it, as the saying goes, in our bones. Our own hunger for knowledge deeper than logic, more intimate than reason and rationality, can help us to understand why Ghazali felt compelled to walk in the mystic way. What he learned from ...
... feel it, as the saying goes, in our bones. Our own hunger for knowledge deeper than logic, more intimate than reason and rationality, can help us to understand why Ghazali felt compelled to walk in the mystic way. What he learned from ...
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... feel good: gazing into the eyes of our beloved, scoring the winning goal in a soccer game, swimming in the ocean ... feels from the inside.”5 He meant, of course, the warmth, the glow, that radiates inside us when we enjoy life. Just ...
... feel good: gazing into the eyes of our beloved, scoring the winning goal in a soccer game, swimming in the ocean ... feels from the inside.”5 He meant, of course, the warmth, the glow, that radiates inside us when we enjoy life. Just ...
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... feels more like wrestling than dancing because it requires us to “stand prepared and unshaken to meet what comes and what we did not foresee.”7 Later in the work, he commanded himself to wrestle to become the kind of man he wished ...
... feels more like wrestling than dancing because it requires us to “stand prepared and unshaken to meet what comes and what we did not foresee.”7 Later in the work, he commanded himself to wrestle to become the kind of man he wished ...
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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 |
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