A Practical Guide to Happiness A Practical Guide to Happiness
Think Deeply and Flourish
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2012
224 pages
978-1-84831-363-7 (ISBN)
Description
Apply the wisdom of philosophers to become a happier person.
What is happiness? What makes you happy?Is there more to life than happiness?
Learn to cultivate your taste for pleasure, free yourself from the various disturbances of life, and overcome irrational expectations that cause distress. Go with the flow and rediscover the joy of existence.
Filled with exercises, tips and case studies, this Practical Guide will enable you to see happiness in a new light, with the help of the world's greatest minds
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Will Buckingham is a philosopher. He has a PhD in philosophy from Staffordshire University and teaches in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University, specialising in ethics, philosophy and literature. He is the author of several books, including the philosophy book Finding our Sea-Legs.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- About the author
- Contents
- Introduction: the secret of happiness?
- Part I: What is Happiness?
- 1. The philosophy of happiness
- 2. What we talk about when we talk about happiness
- 3. A science of happiness?
- 4. Calculating happiness
- 5. Happiness and ethics
- Part II: What Makes Us Happy?
- 6. Some approaches to happiness
- 7. Aristotle: excellence, flourishing and virtue
- 8. Epicurus: a small pot of cheese
- 9. Diogenes the Cynic: the life of a dog
- 10. Stoicism: mastering our judgements
- 11. Thomas Aquinas: that old time religion
- 12. Buddhism: getting away from suffering
- 13. Traditions of meditation
- 14. Santideva: happiness and compassion
- 15. Confucius: ritual
- 16. Zhuangzi: a philosopher of uselessness
- 17. Mencius: a different kind of happiness
- Part III: Beyond Happiness
- 18. More to life?
- 19. Cutting happiness down to size
- 20. Cockaigne
- Further reading
