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Index
Title page
Copyright
About the author
Contents
Introduction: the secret of happiness?
Part I: What is Happiness?
1. The philosophy of happiness
2. What we talk about when we talk about happiness
3. A science of happiness?
4. Calculating happiness
5. Happiness and ethics
Part II: What Makes Us Happy?
6. Some approaches to happiness
7. Aristotle: excellence, flourishing and virtue
8. Epicurus: a small pot of cheese
9. Diogenes the Cynic: the life of a dog
10. Stoicism: mastering our judgements
11. Thomas Aquinas: that old time religion
12. Buddhism: getting away from suffering
13. Traditions of meditation
14. Śāntideva: happiness and compassion
15. Confucius: ritual
16. Zhuangzi: a philosopher of uselessness
17. Mencius: a different kind of happiness
Part III: Beyond Happiness
18. More to life?
19. Cutting happiness down to size
20. Cockaigne
Further reading
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