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I: Greek, Roman, and Christian happiness --
1. Happiness as moral and intellectual virtue --
2. Happiness as flourishing --
3. Happiness as radical asceticism --
4. Happiness a hedonism --
5. Happiness as tranquility --
6. Happiness as worldly transcendence --
II: Happiness reconceived --
1. Happiness as morally earned --
2. Happiness as collective achievement --
3. Happiness as the greatest good for the greatest number --
4. Happiness as illusion --
5. Happiness as positive psychological state --
III: Contemporary philosophical views --
1. Philosophy joins hands with social science --
2. Happiness as positive self-appraisal --
3. Happiness as accurate, positive self-appraisal --
4. Happiness as connection to objective, preexisting good --
5. What we learn from contemporary philosophers --
6. Can everyone be happy? --
7. Should everyone be happy? --
8. How much suffering is compatible with happiness? --
9. Why happiness is overrated --
IV: The paths to happiness --
1. Adjust expectations --
2. Nurture relationships --
3. Be optimistic and appreciative --
4. Have faith --
5. Make peace, not war --
6. Be goal-oriented --
7. Prioritize --
8. Use leisure wisely, energize the senses, eat and exercise properly --
9. Go with the flow --
10. Be lucky --
11. Forms of happiness --
V: The meaning of life --
1. What does it mean to say life has meaning? --
2. The existential problem --
3. The religious solution --
A. Eastern religion --
B. Western religion --
C. Assessment of religion --
4. Cosmic meaninglessness --
5. The construction of contingent meaning --
A. Nietzsche --
B. Camus --
6. Telescopes and slinky toys --
7. Meaning & significance --
8. Death. |
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