Happiness
Subtitle: a philosopher's guide
By: Frédéric Lenoir ; translated by Andrew Brown
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781612194394
Subjects: Happiness
Work titles: Du bonheur
Description: A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from Aristotle, Plato, and Chuang Tzu to the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad; from Voltaire, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer to Kant, Freud, and even modern neuroscientists--Lenoir considers the idea that true and lasting happiness is indeed possible.
Notes: Translation of: Du bonheur: un voyage philosophique.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Loving the life you lead; title: In the garden of pleasures, with Aristotle and Epicurus; title: Giving meaning to life; title: Voltaire and the happy idiot; title: Does every human being wish to be happy?; title: Happiness is not of this world: Socrates, Jesus, Kant; title: On the art of being oneself; title: Schopenhauer: happiness lies in our sensibility; title: Does money make us happy?; title: The emotional brain; title: On the art of being attentive...and dreaming; title: We are what we think; title: The time of a life; title: Can we be happy without other people?; title: The contagiousness of happiness; title: Individual happiness and collective happiness; title: Can the quest for happiness make us unhappy?; title: From desire to boredom: when happiness is impossible; title: The smile of the Buddha and Epictetus; title: The laughter of Montaigne and Chuang Tzu; title: The joy of Spinoza and Ma Anandamayi.