The Good LifeA collection of 25 philosophical writings from antiquity to modernity that concern the self-directed question of what is the good life. Organized into sections on religious ways, the use of reason, self-exploration, self realization, and social involvement, the book contains essays and excerpts from works by such authors as Plato, Lao Tzu, Augustine, William James, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Sartre, Marx, and Buber. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Contents
The Ideal of Harmony | 1 |
Plato Republic | 10 |
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics | 22 |
Lucretius On the Order of Things | 42 |
Epictetus Encheiridion or The Handbook | 53 |
Religious Ways of Life | 73 |
Augustine Confessions | 79 |
Martin Luther The Freedom of a Christian | 92 |
SelfExploration | 183 |
Blaise Pascal Pensées | 199 |
JeanJacques Rousseau Emile | 204 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson SelfReliance | 211 |
SelfRealization | 227 |
JeanPaul Sartre Being and Nothingness | 241 |
Simone de Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity | 261 |
Social Involvement | 271 |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Russian Monk from The | 103 |
William James The Religion of HealthyMindedness | 132 |
The Use of Reason | 143 |
Baruch Spinoza The Ethics | 159 |
Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness | 173 |
W E B Du Bois Of Our Spiritual Strivings from | 281 |
Martin Buber The Way of Man According to the | 288 |
A Feminine Approach to Ethics | 316 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Good Life Hackett readings in philosophy The Good Life, Charles B. Guignon |
| Editor | Charles B. Guignon |
| Compiled by | Charles B. Guignon |
| Publisher | Hackett Publishing, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0872204383, 9780872204386 |
| Length | 325 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Metaphysics |
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