Lobel Philosophies of Happiness

A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54532-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Philosophies of Happiness provides a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to create a fulfilling life. Diana Lobel brings together a broad range of philosophical traditions—Eastern and Western, ancient and contemporary—to show that certain themes resonate across texts, suggesting core features of a happy life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lobel, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Aristotle: The Life of Engaged Activity
2. Epicurus: Happiness Is Pleasure
3. Confucian Happiness: Ritual, Humaneness, Music, and Joy
4. Daoism: Attentive Awareness and Effortless Ease of Action (Wu-Wei)
5. The Bhagavad Gita: Non-attached Action and the Universal Spirit
6. St. Augustine: The Happy Life of the Soul
7. Maimonides: The Joy of Learning, Prayer, and Devotion
8. The Sufi Path of Love in 'Attar’s Conference of the Birds
9. Mindfulness, East and West
10. Dogen’s Soto Zen and Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
11. Creative Engagement and the Art of Living
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Lobel is associate professor of religion at Boston University. She is the author of Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari (2000), A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya Ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Heart (2006), and The Quest for God and the Good: World Philosophy as a Living Experience (Columbia, 2011).