Exploring Happiness From Aristotle to Brain Science
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2010
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- Hardcover
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Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy - as new condition. 218 pages. Distinguished moral philosopher ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throuout the ages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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- Title
- Exploring Happiness From Aristotle to Brain Science
- Author
- Bok, Sissela
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven & London
- Publication year
- 2010
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300139292
- ISBN 13
- 9780300139297
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy
In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness—from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama—as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists. Eschewing abstract theorizing, Bok weaves in a wealth of firsthand observations about happiness from ordinary people as well as renowned figures. This may well be the most complete picture of happiness yet.
This book is also a clarion call to think clearly and sensitively about happiness. Bringing together very different disciplines provides Bok with a unique opportunity to consider the role of happiness in wider questions of how we should lead our lives and treat one another—concerns that don’t often figure in today’s happiness equation. How should we pursue, weigh, value, or limit our own happiness, or that of others, now and in the future? Compelling and perceptive, Exploring Happiness shines a welcome new light on the heart of the human condition.
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