Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought

ISBN: 9781441112378 出版年：2004 页码：272 M Andrew Holowchak Bloomsbury Publishing

This book presents a fresh exploration of happiness through the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers. It introduces readers to the main currents of Greek ethical thought (Socratic living, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Scepticism, Stoicism, Cynicism) and takes a close look at characters such as Socrates, Diogenes and Alexander the Great. Yet Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought is much mocasual stroll through ancient thinking. It attempts to show how certain common themes in Greek thought are essential for living a hapage. The author maintains that, in many respects, the Greek integrative ideal, contrary to the hedonistic individualism that many pluralistic societies at least implicitly advocate, isalternative that warrants honest reconsideration today.