A Brief History of Happiness

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1520-9

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208 pages

January 2006, Wiley-Blackwell

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A brief history of happiness, reviewing 2,500 years of philosophical thought about the concept.
Addresses key questions such as what happiness is and whether or not happiness should play such a dominant role in our lives.
Considers the ways in which major thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Nietzsche and Freud have treated happiness.
Relates questions about happiness to ethics and to practical philosophy.