The Good Life

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Charles B. Guignon
Hackett Publishing, Jan 1, 1999 - Philosophy - 325 pages

Organized around themes such as harmony with one's self and with the world, right relation to God, the use of reason, self-exploration, and living in a disordered world, the selections in this anthology explore traditional philosophical thought from Plato to de Beauvoir on the topic of human flourishing.

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Contents

The Ideal of Harmony
1
vii
42
2223
53
22
60
42
66
Religious Ways of Life
73
William James The Religion of HealthyMindedness
132
The Use of Reason
143
Blaise Pascal Pensées
199
Ralph Waldo Emerson SelfReliance
211
SelfRealization
227
JeanPaul Sartre Being and Nothingness
241
Simone de Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity
261
Social Involvement
271
W E B Du Bois Of Our Spiritual Strivings from
281
Martin Buber The Way of Man According to the
288

Baruch Spinoza The Ethics
159
Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness
173
SelfExploration
183
A Feminine Approach to Ethics
316
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Charles Guignon is Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida.

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