The quest for the good life [electronic resource] : ancient philosophers on happiness / edited by Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim, and Miira Tuominen.
Rabbås, Øyvind, 1958- editor.; Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, editor.; Fossheim, Hallvard, editor.; Tuominen, Miira, editor.
2015
B187.H3 Q47 2015eb
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Title The quest for the good life [electronic resource] : ancient philosophers on happiness / edited by Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim, and Miira Tuominen.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780191809163 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746980
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages)
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746980 doi
Call Number B187.H3 Q47 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 170
Summary Happiness was a central focus of ancient philosophy: this volume traces conceptions of happiness through nearly a millennium, from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. The contributors address questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern.
Note Happiness was a central focus of ancient philosophy: this volume traces conceptions of happiness through nearly a millennium, from the Presocratics through Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. The contributors address questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2015).
Added Author Rabbås, Øyvind, 1958- editor.
Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, editor.
Fossheim, Hallvard, editor.
Tuominen, Miira, editor.
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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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