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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Contributors: Rabbås, Øyvind 1958- (Editor) ; Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson 1953- (Editor) ; Fossheim, Hallvard 1969- (Editor) ; Tuominen, Miira (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press 2015
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
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 281-292
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ISBN:0198746989