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The quest for the good life, ancient philosophers on happiness, edited by Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim and Miira Tuominen

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The quest for the good life, ancient philosophers on happiness, edited by Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim and Miira Tuominen
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The quest for the good life
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim and Miira Tuominen
Sub title
ancient philosophers on happiness
Table Of Contents
On happiness and godlikeness before Socrates / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson -- Plato's defence of justice : the wrong kind of reason? / Julia Annas -- Wanting to do what is just in the Gorgias / Panos Dimas -- Eudaimonia, human nature, and normativity : reflections on Aristotle's project in Nicomachean Ethics Book I / Øyvind Rabbås -- Aristotle on happiness and old age / Hallvard Fossheim -- Aristotle on happiness and long life / Gabriel Richardson Lear -- Why is Aristotle's vicious person miserable? / Gösta Grönroos -- Epicurus on pleasure, desire, and friendship / Panos Dimas -- How feasible is the Stoic conception of eudaimonia? / Katerina Ierodiakonou -- The Pyrrhonian idea of a good life / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson -- Plotinus' way of defining 'eudaimonia' in Ennead I 4 [46] 1-3 / Alexandrine Schniewind -- On happiness and time / Eyjólfur K. Emilsson -- Why do we need other people to be happy? : happiness and concern for others in Aspasius and Porphyry / Miira Tuominen -- Happiness in this life? : Augustine on the principle that virtue is self-sufficient for happiness / Christian Tornau
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