Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: September 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674003293
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Western philosophy; Psychology; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Philosophy Of Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Philosophy; Psychoanalysis and philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / Western; Ethics; General; 1856-1939; Aristotle; Freud, Sigmund,
First sentence: What difference does psychoanalysis make to our understanding of human existence?
Description: "Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. With Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle." "Aristotle attempted to ground ethical life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn't understand what happiness is any better than we do. Freud fared no better when he tried to ground human striving, aggression, and destructiveness in the death drive."--BOOK JACKET.