The quest for the good life: ancient philosophers on happiness
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 Nic...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Classical antiquity
/ Philosophy
/ Good living
B Eudemonia / Happiness / Good living / Philosophy / Geschichte Anfänge-400 |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Happiness Philosophy B Ethics, Ancient B Philosophy, Ancient B Conduct of life B Conference program |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 281-292 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| ISBN: | 0198746989 |