The Sum Total of Human Happiness
By: by James V. Schall.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: South Bend, Ind
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Happiness.; Joy.; Ontology.
Description: "This is a book on the truth of things, including the truth found in things that are wrong or even evil, the "alternative world." But it is primarily a book about the many things that are, the infinity of particular things, as well as the highest things, both of which come to us primarily by gift and superabundance. The wonder, indeed the amazement, of our existence is not that there is so little, but so much. And it is intrinsic to this "so much" that, through our minds and our experience, we are open to these things that are not ourselves. The mind is capax omnium, capable of knowing all things."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between two walks; title: Belloc's "walk," after a century : on being "reasonably" happy in this life; title: What do philosophers know?; title: On the problem of philosophic learning; title: The alternative world; title: Meditation on evil; title: On the will to know the truth; title: Revelation and the 'truth of things'; title: Why should anything go right? : on the curious relation of revelation, reason, and reality; title: On the purpose of "this world"; title: "What say you of the peacock's tail?" : of things for their own sake; title: Leisure and culture : why human beings exist and why they are "unimportant"; title: "Haloes in hell" : Chesterton's own private "heresy"; title: The sum total of human happiness; title: Belloc's second walk, a century later : "on the character of enduring things".