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Pursuit of Happiness
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Pursuit of Happiness in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought. Studies Dedicated to Steven Harvey
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 432 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503591438.
Summary The articles in this volume explore the teachings on happiness by a range of thinkers from antiquity through Spinoza, most of whom held human happiness to comprise intellectual knowledge of that which is Good in itself, namely God. These thinkers were from Greek pagan, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian backgrounds and wrote their works in Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin. Still, they shared similar philosophical views of what constitutes the Highest Good, and of the intellectual activities to be undertaken in pursuit of that Good. Yet, they differed, often greatly, in the role they assigned to deeds and practical activities in the pursuit of this happiness. These differences were, at times, not only along religious lines, but also along political and ethical lines. Other differences treated the relationship between the body and intellectual happiness and the various ways in which bodily health and well-being can contribute to intellectual health and true happiness. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Yehuda Halper and Resianne Fontaine Happiness Without Sense-Perception: From Plotinus to the visio beatifica, East and West - Cristina D'Ancona Happiness in Jewish-Hellenistic and Rabbinic Thought - Giuseppe Veltri Philosophical Terms for 'Happiness' in Languages of Culture in Medieval Near, Middle, and Far East - Mauro Zonta Alfarabi on Categories of Existence and Politics - Charles E. Butterworth Alfarabi's Directing Attention to the Way of Happiness or the Way out of the Cave - Th r se-Anne Druart Light, Exhilarants, and Healing the Spirit: Some Observations on Avicenna's al-Adwiya al-Qalbiyya (Cardiac Drugs) - Y. Tzvi Langermann On the Certainty of Traditio - Hannah Kasher and Ariel Malachi From Tranquility to Extra Effort: Some Notes on the Introduction and Conclusion of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed - Dong Xiuyuan Maimonides on Joseph Ibn Jabir's Ultimate Happiness - Charles Manekin 'Shun Evil and Do Good': The Problem of Evil According to Maimonides' Commentators on Guide, III. 8-12 - Resianne Fontaine Happiness, Eros, and the Active Intellect: Understanding Erotic Desire in Averroes' Long Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics in light of the Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics - Yehuda Halper '...donc le bonheur ne r side pas dans le jeu': Quelques br ves remarques sur le Commentaire moyen d'Averro s l' thique Nicomaque, X 6 - Fr d rique Woerther Ibn al-'Arabi's Theology of Prayer - Binyamin Abrahamov Meaning Beyond Defining: Averroes's Dispositio in Thomas Aquinas's Account of Heavenly Beatitude - Katja Krause How to 'Win the Fulfillment of the Best Life Set by the Gods': Questions Addressed to Plato by Gersonides - Ruth Glasner Courage and Death: Aristotle, Aquinas and Joseph b. Shem-Tob - Chaim M. Neria Hasdai Crescas's Use of the Term 'Happiness' - Warren Zev Harvey Happiness in Life and after Death in Late Medieval Byzantine Jewish Thought - Dov Schwartz Spinoza and Some of His Medieval Philosophers on the Summum Bonum - Yitzhak Melamed The Pure Young Men: Chastity, Euripides, and the Madrasas of Pakistan - John Walbridge *** Bibliography of the Writings of Steven Harvey Index of Names Index of Passages Cited
Principes du Droit Naturel. - [LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS]
Geneve, Barrillot & Fils, 1747. 4to. Contemporary full vellum with gilt title-label to spine. Binding a bit soiled, but overall nice and tight. Title-page a bit toned, but otherwise very nice and clean. XXIV, 352 pp.
The uncommon first edition of Burlamaqui's groundbreaking main work - the only work that he himself published - which, with its vision of constitutionalism, constituted a major influence upon the American Founding Fathers. It is in the present work that the quest for happiness as a natural human right is articulated for the first time, a principle that Thomas Jefferson, directly influenced by the present work, later restated in the Declaration of Independence. Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748) was very well respected as an eminent legal and political theorist. He was born in Geneva, and at the age of 25, he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the university there. Before taking up the appointment, he travelled through France and England, where he made the acquaintance of the most eminent writers of the period. Upon his return, he began lecturing and soon gained a wide reputation for his eloquence and for the precision of his views. In his introduction, Nugent (in his 1748 translation of the work into English) said of Burlamaqui: ""His singular beauty consists in the alliance he so carefully points out between ethics and jurisprudence, religion and politics, after the example of Plato and Tully, and the other illustrious masters of antiquity.""Burlamaqui's lectures drew many foreign students to Geneva, and his natural law treatise, the only work that he published in his life-time, was translated into English, Latin, Dutch, Danish, Italian, and Spanish and was republished in more than sixty different editions. The English translation became a standard textbook both at Cambridge and at the foremost American colleges. Burlamaqui's work was well known by the Founding Fathers, and his writings exerted considerable influence on the American constitutional system. Burlamaqui's work also exercised considerable influence upon the likes of Rousseau and Diderot.
Life Health & the Pursuit of Happiness
NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (12/1998)
LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9781560724667
The Pursuit of Happiness
Arrow. 2001. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 646 pages. Texte en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
LA POURSUITE DU BONHEUR - THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
EDITION POCKET N° 11687. 2004. In-12. Broché. Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 773 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Traduction de B. Cohen. Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
