The Resource The secrets of happiness : three thousand years of searching for the good life, Richard Schoch
The secrets of happiness : three thousand years of searching for the good life, Richard Schoch
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- Summary
- Richard Schoch shows readers how they can enrich their lives by recovering the ancient philosophical and religious traditions of happiness--and then putting them to work in their own lives today. In a journey across cultures and centuries--from the trials of Job to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and from Buddha's Four Noble Truths to the ecstasy of medieval Sufi mystics--Schoch answers questions that, although fundamental to our well-being, are rarely asked: What kind of effort does it take to be happy? Do you have a right to be happy? Can you be happy if others are unhappy?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Scribner ed.
- Extent
- viii, 243 p.
- Contents
-
- Living for pleasure. The greatest happiness (the Utilitarians) ; Pleasure is good (the Epicureans)
- Conquering desire. Get busy with your works (Hinduism) ; The Enlightened One (Buddhism)
- Transcending reason. Only in heaven (Christianity) ; The alchemy of happiness (Islam)
- Enduring suffering. It's all in your mind (The Stoics) ; The hidden face of God (Judaism)
- Isbn
- 9780743292924
- Label
- The secrets of happiness : three thousand years of searching for the good life
- Title
- The secrets of happiness
- Title remainder
- three thousand years of searching for the good life
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Schoch
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Richard Schoch shows readers how they can enrich their lives by recovering the ancient philosophical and religious traditions of happiness--and then putting them to work in their own lives today. In a journey across cultures and centuries--from the trials of Job to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and from Buddha's Four Noble Truths to the ecstasy of medieval Sufi mystics--Schoch answers questions that, although fundamental to our well-being, are rarely asked: What kind of effort does it take to be happy? Do you have a right to be happy? Can you be happy if others are unhappy?
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 189724
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Schoch, Richard W
- Dewey number
- 170
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BJ1481
- LC item number
- .S36 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
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- Happiness
- Happiness
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- three thousand years of searching for the good life
- Label
- The secrets of happiness : three thousand years of searching for the good life, Richard Schoch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index
- Contents
- Living for pleasure. The greatest happiness (the Utilitarians) ; Pleasure is good (the Epicureans) -- Conquering desire. Get busy with your works (Hinduism) ; The Enlightened One (Buddhism) -- Transcending reason. Only in heaven (Christianity) ; The alchemy of happiness (Islam) -- Enduring suffering. It's all in your mind (The Stoics) ; The hidden face of God (Judaism)
- Dimensions
- 19 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Scribner ed.
- Extent
- viii, 243 p.
- Isbn
- 9780743292924
- Lccn
- 2006044375
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780743292924
- (OCoLC)70167770
- Label
- The secrets of happiness : three thousand years of searching for the good life, Richard Schoch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index
- Contents
- Living for pleasure. The greatest happiness (the Utilitarians) ; Pleasure is good (the Epicureans) -- Conquering desire. Get busy with your works (Hinduism) ; The Enlightened One (Buddhism) -- Transcending reason. Only in heaven (Christianity) ; The alchemy of happiness (Islam) -- Enduring suffering. It's all in your mind (The Stoics) ; The hidden face of God (Judaism)
- Dimensions
- 19 cm.
- Edition
- 1st Scribner ed.
- Extent
- viii, 243 p.
- Isbn
- 9780743292924
- Lccn
- 2006044375
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780743292924
- (OCoLC)70167770
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