The Great Ideas

Topic 2. The understanding of happiness: definitions and myths

Volume GBWW [I]:

AUTHOR

Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

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HERODOTUS

History, BK I, 6c-8a; 48c; BK III, 98b-99a

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PLATO

Phaedrus, 124a-129d

Symposium, 164c-165a

Republic, BK II, 311c-312b; BK X, 437c-441a,c

Timaeus, 444c-446b

Critias, 479b-485d

Statesman, 586c-589c

Philebus, 609a-c

Laws, BK II, 656d-658d

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ARISTOTLE

Ethics, BK I, 339a-348d esp CH 7 [1097b22-1098a19], 343a-c; BK IX, CH 9 [1169b28-30], 423c; BK XI, CH 6-8, 430d-434a

Politics, BK IV, CH II [1295a35-38], 495c; BK VII, CH 13 [1331b24-1332a27] 536b-537a

Rhetoric, BK I, CH 5 [1360b4-18], 600d-601a

Poetics, CH 6 [145a17-20], 684c

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LUCRETIUS

Nature of Things, BK II [1-61], 15a-d; [646-651], 23b; BK III [14-24], 30b; BK V [1-54], 61a-d; BK VI [1-42], 80a-d

EPICTETUS

Discourses, BK I, CH 4, 108d-110a

AURELIUS

Meditations, BK IV, SECT 3, 263b-264a

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VIRGIL

Eclogues, IV, 14a-15b

Aeneid, BK VIII [306-336], 267a-268a

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PLUTARCH

Solon, 74c-75c

Pyrrhus, 320c-321a

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PLOTINUS

First Ennead, TR IV-V, 12b-21a

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AUGUSTINE

Confessions, BK X, par 29-34, 78d-80c

City of God, BK XII, CH I, 342b,d-343c

Christian Doctrine, BK I, CH 4, 625b-c

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AQUINAS

Summa Theologica, PART 1, Q 2, A1, REP I, 10d-11d; PART I-II, QQ 2-4, 615c-636c

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HOBBES

Leviathan, PART I, 65a-b; 73d; 76c-d

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RABELAIS

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK I, 18a-b;60c-66b, esp 65c-66b

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MONTAIGNE

Essays, 26d-28a; 538a-543a,c

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SPINOZA

Ethics, PART IV, PROP 18, SCHOL-PROP 28, 429a-431c; APPENDIX, IV, 447b-c;PART V, PROP 39, SCHOL, 462b-c

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LOCKE

Human Understanding, BK II, CH VII, SECT 2, 131c-d; CH XXI, SECT 42-43, 188c-d; SECT 55-56, 192c-193b; SECT 64, 195a-b

BERKELEY

Human Knowledge, SECT 100, 432b-c

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FIELDING

Tom Jones, 283a-b

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ROUSSEAU

Inequality, 325b-d

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KANT

Pure Reason, 236b-d

Fund. Prin. Metaphysic of Morals, 256a-b; 256d-257d; 267b-d

Practical Reason, 298c-d; 339b-d; 345a-c

Judgement, 584d-587a; 594c-596c

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MILL

Utilitarianism, 448a-452b, esp 448a; 456a-d; 461c-464d

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BOSWELL

Johnson, 144d

46:

HEGEL

Philosophy of Right, PART II, par 123, 44a-b;

ADDITIONS, 78, 128c-d

47:

GOETHE

Faust, PART II [9695-9902], 235a-240b

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FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents, 772a-b; 777c-778a; 782d

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