Friendship and Happiness

And the Connection Between the Two
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6896-3
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

This ""philosophical"" look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship—friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations—casual friends, close friends, best friends—are described, along with the growing phenomena of virtual friendships and cyber socialization in the Internet age. Inspired in part by Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, the authors propose that conquering unhappiness is key to achieving the self-satisfaction Russell called zest and  Aristotle called eudaimonia or thriving by our own efforts.

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Tim Delaney is a professor and department chair of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego. He sponsors an annual sportsmanship day symposium and recently co-created a sports studies program at his university. He lives in Auburn, New York.