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Happiness: A Guide to a Good Life : Aristotle for the New Century - Hardcover

Vanier, Jean

 
9781559706445: Happiness: A Guide to a Good Life : Aristotle for the New Century
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1559706449 ISBN 13: 9781559706445
Verlag: Arcade Publishing, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

To be happy, to know true happiness, is the profound desire of every man and woman. Two and a half millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle concluded that love, friendship, pleasure, and the active search for truth and justice are all part of our fundamental quest for happiness. Here Jean Vanier reexamines Aristotleís theories in the light of the modern worldódiscussing and illuminating the links between psychology, spirituality, and moralityóand shows that these paths to knowledge, self-knowledge, and wisdom give meaning to our lives and free us in our search for happiness. Thoughtful, intelligent, lucidly written, HAPPINESS nourishes and stimulates both heart and mind.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean Vanier, a writer and social activist, is the founder of two international organizations dedicated to helping people with intellectual disabilities, líArche and Faith and Light. His other works include Becoming Human, An Ark for the Poor, and Tears of Silence.

Rezensionen

These three books take different approaches to the basic question, How can we live a meaningful life? To find an answer, Vanier (Becoming Human) turns to Aristotle, offering a detailed account of his views on the virtues. Vanier shows that Aristotle based his ethics on a cultivation of individual excellence that did not exclude the values of friendship and life in society. Vanier does not, however, wholly embrace Aristotle, arguing that his system was elitist and needs to be corrected by Christian compassion. Like Vanier, Kekes (The Examined Life) emphasizes the virtues, but his approach to the good life is pluralistic rather than Aristotelian. Arguing that no formalist doctrine such as Kant's can provide universally valid rules for leading a moral life, he instead maintains that the study of admirable individuals furnishes the guidelines we need. Among those Kekes finds worthy of emulation are Montaigne and Thomas More, who balanced public responsibilities with private commitments. Kekes offers a close analysis of their conduct, thereby hoping to convey a sense of how choosing a personal ideal is influenced by general moral constraints. Bell suggests a more personal way of addressing life's meaning, discussing incidents in his own life that may help others find an answer to this question. In particular, he stresses his need to subordinate personal ambition to the Civil Rights Movement. His principled stand involved him in several crucial conflicts, one of which led to his resignation from the faculty of Harvard Law School. (He is now a visiting professor at NYU.) Bell also presents insights on his friendship with women and on religion, again from a personal perspective. These three books are highly recommended for all public libraries.
David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., OH
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Verlag
Arcade Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1559706449
ISBN 13 
9781559706445
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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