A brief history of happiness [electronic resource] / Nicholas White.

Do we really know what happiness is? Should happiness play such a dominant role in shaping and orienting our lives? And how can we deal with conflicts between the various things that make us happy? In this "Brief History of Happiness", philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of atte...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Main Author: White, Nicholas, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the subject
  • Conflicts, perspectives, and the identification of happiness
  • Pleasure, hedonism, and the measurement of happiness
  • Happiness as structure and harmony
  • Morality, happiness, and conflict
  • Happiness, fact, and value
  • Doing without the concept.