书目

Happiness A Philosopher's Guide

内容简介

AhugebestsellerinEurope，FredericLenoir’sHappinessisanexcitingjourneythatexamineshowhistory’sgreatestphilosophersandreligiousfigureshaveansweredlife’smostfundamentalquestion：WhatishappinessandhowdoIachieveit?FromtheancientGreekson—fromAristotle，Plato，andChuangTzutotheBuddha，Jesus，andMuhammad;fromVoltaire，Spinoza，andSchopenhauertoKant，Freud，andevenmodernneuroscientists—Lenoirconsiderstheideathattrueandlastinghappinessisindeedpossible.Inclearlanguage，Lenoirconciselysurveyswhatthegreatestthinkersofalltimehavehadtosayonthesubject，and，withcharmingprose，raisesprovocativequestions：·Dowehaveadutytobehappy?·Isthereaconnectionbetweenindividualandcollectivehappiness?·Ishappinesscontagious?·Isthereadifferencebetweenpleasureandhappiness?·Canunhappinessandhappinesscoexist?·Doesourhappinessdependonourluck?Understandinghowcivilization’sbestmindshaveansweredthosequestions，Lenoirsuggests，notonlymakesforafascinatingreadingexperience，butalsoprovidesawayforustoseeushowhappiness，thatmostelusiveoffeelings，isattainableinourownlives.

作者简介

FRéDéRICLENOIRisaphilosopher,sociologist,andreligioushistorian,andtheauthorofnumerousessays,books,andnovelstranslatedintoovertwentylanguages.HeisaprofessoratL’écoledesHautesétudesenSciencesSociales,oneofFrance’seliteuniversities,andistheeditorofLeMondedesreligions,abimonthlymagazinethatispartofFrance’sleadingnewspaper,LeMonde.HeisalsotheproducerandhostoftheweeklyprogramaboutreligionandphilosophyonFranceCultureradio.ANDREWBROWN’smostrecenttranslationsincludeworksbyProust,Zola,Flaubert,Stendhal,Rabelais,andBaudelaire.,,,

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