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Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

By Jonathan Lear

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674040038
DOI
10.4159/9780674040038
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
933 kB (955487 bytes)
Pages
204\201
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 06:20:29

Description

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.

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