Happiness is overrated /
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| Author / Creator: | Belliotti, Raymond A., 1948- |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403328 |
| Summary: | Happiness Is Overrated begins with an historical overview of the development of the concept of 'happiness' from Plato to contemporary writers, highlighting the best scholarship emerging from philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Belliotti includes practical advice on how to attain happiness and addresses issues centered on the meaning of life. Happiness, he argues, is not the greatest personal good, or even a great good in itself. In fact, sometimes happiness isn't a good at all. If we pursue worthwhile, exemplary lives and find happiness along the way, then we are lucky. If we don't, then we can take pride and derive satisfaction from a life well lived. Ultimately, the greatest personal good is realized in leading a robustly meaningful, valuable life. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417503467 9781417503469 0742533611 9780742533615 074253362X 9780742533622 |