The quest for the good life: Ancient philosophers on happiness
Oxford, 2015
Abstract
On happiness and godlikeness before Socrates Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson – Plato’s defence of justice : the wrong kind of reason? Julia Annas – Wanting to do what is just in the Gorgias Panos Dimas – Eudaimonia, human nature, and normativity : reflections on Aristotle’s project in Nicomachean Ethics Book I Øyvind Rabbås – Aristotle on happiness and old age Hallvard Fossheim – Aristotle on happiness and long life Gabriel Richardson Lear – Why is Aristotle’s vicious person miserable? Gösta Grönroos – Epicurus on pleasure, desire, and friendship Panos Dimas – How feasible is the Stoic conception of eudaimonia? Katerina Ierodiakonou – The Pyrrhonian idea of a good life Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson – Plotinus’ way of defining ’eudaimonia’ in Ennead I 4 [46] 1-3 Alexandrine Schniewind – On happiness and time Eyjólfur K. Emilsson – Why do we need other people to be happy? : happiness and concern for others in Aspasius and Porphyry Miira Tuominen – Happiness in this life? : Augustine on the principle that virtue is self-sufficient for happiness Christian Tornau