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Philosophy and Happiness: How Philosophy Can Bring Felicity

Philosophy and Happiness: How Philosophy Can Bring Felicity

Bowman, John L.

Paperback

PhilosophySelf-Help

ISBN10: 0692962786
ISBN13: 9780692962787
Publisher: John L. Bowman
Published: Oct 4 2017
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Many philosophers believe people were made to be happy. Epictetus wrote that people should be happy because God made them that way--their lives should be free from hindrance and restraint. John Locke believed that happiness is the unavoidable concomitant of consciousness. However, philosophers also believed that happiness requires knowledge and effort. Coleridge wrote that people are what they know, which for the philosopher is people's source of happiness. It is the knowledge humans have that forms the attitudes they hold that are the foundations of happiness. For the philosophers, happiness also requires effort--people were made for it but not with it. Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations wrote that the happy life rests upon humans alone--people are responsible for their own happiness, Shakespeare wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so, Boethius wrote nothing is miserable unless people think it so and Seneca wrote the world is as one make it. Happiness then is an art that must be learned and practiced to be achieved. Philosophy and Happiness presents the knowledge the philosophers say brings happiness.

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