Exploring Happiness - From Aristotle to Brain Science

Informationen zum Autor Sissela Bok is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and a moral philosopher of international renown. A former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Bok is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and sits on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Common Knowledge, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice . Her many books include the seminal Lying , Secrets , A Strategy for Peace , Mayhem, and Common Values . She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext Distinguished moral philosopher Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages to the latest theories advanced by psychologists, geneticists, and neuroscientists. Zusammenfassung Ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. This title explores notions of happiness - from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu! Charles Darwin! Iris Murdoch! and the Dalai Lama - as well as the theories advanced by psychologists! economists! geneticists! and neuroscientists.

Product details

• Authors: Sissela Bok
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2011
• EAN: 9780300178104
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17810-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Cognitivism, cognitive theory