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Happiness for Humans (Hardcover)
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Happiness for Humans (Hardcover)
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In Happiness for Humans, Daniel C. Russell takes a fresh look at
happiness from a practical perspective: the perspective of someone
trying to solve the wonderful problem of how to give himself a good
life. From this perspective, 'happiness' is the name of a solution
to that problem for practical deliberation. Russell's approach to
happiness falls within a tradition that reaches back to ancient
Greek and Roman philosophers-a tradition now called 'eudaimonism.'
Beginning with Aristotle's seminal discussion of the role of
happiness in practical reasoning, Russell asks what sort of good
happiness would have to be in order to play the role in our
practical economies that it actually does play. Looking at
happiness from this perspective, Russell argues that happiness is a
life of activity, with three main features: it is acting for the
sake of ends we can live for, and living for them wisely; it is
fulfilling for us, both as humans and as unique individuals; and it
is inextricable from our connections with the particular persons,
pursuits, and places that make us who we are. By returning to this
ancient perspective on happiness, Russell finds new directions for
contemporary thought about the good lives we want for ourselves.
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