Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life |
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| Author:
| Lear, Jonathan |
| Series title: | The Tanner Lectures on Human Values Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-04003-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $55.00USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart.
Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart.