Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide (Hardcover)

Contents

Prologue

1 Loving the Life You Lead

2 In the Garden of Pleasures, with Aristotle and Epicurus

3 Giving Meaning to Life

4 Voltaire and the Happy Idiot

5 Does Every Human Being Wish to Be Happy?

6 Happiness Is Not of This World: Socrates, Jesus, Kant

7 On the Art of Being Oneself

8 Schopenhauer: Happiness Lies in Our Sensibility

9 Does Money Make Us Happy?

10 The Emotional Brain

11 On the Art of Being Attentive . . . and Dreaming

12 We Are What We Think

13 The Time of a Life

14 Can We Be Happy Without Other People?

15 The Contagiousness of Happiness

16 Individual Happiness and Collective Happiness

17 Can the Quest for Happiness Make Us Unhappy?

18 From Desire to Boredom: When Happiness Is Impossible

19 The Smile of the Buddha and Epictetus

20 The Laughter of Montaigne and Chuang Tzu

21 The Joy of Spinoza and Ma Anandamayi

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography