The Great Ideas

Happiness

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Topic 2b(1) The contribution of the goods of fortune to happiness: wealth, health, longevity

Volume GBWW [I]:
AUTHOR
Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

5:
AESCHYLUS
Persians [155-172] 16d-17a
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus at Colonus [1211-1248] 125b-c
EURIPIDES
Suppliants [1080-1113] 267d-268a
Trojan Women [466-510] 274a-b
Electra [420-431] 331a
Phoenician Maidens [552-558] 382d
Cyclops [316-346] 443b
ARISTOPHANES
Birds [592-610] 550a-c
Plutus 629a-642d esp [415-618] 633d-636d
6:
HERODOTUS
History, BK I, 7b-8a; BK VII, 224d-225a
7:
PLATO
Euthydemus, 69a-71a; 74b-76b
Republic, BK I, 295d-297b; BK III, 325b-c; BK III-IV, 341c-343b; BK V, 364c-365d
Critias, 485b-c
Laws, BK V, 690a-c; 694a-d; BK IX, 751c
Seventh Letter, 805d-806a
9:
ARISTOTLE
Ethics, BK I, CH 4 [1095a13-27] 340b; CH 5 [1096a5-10] 341a-b; CH 7 [1098a18-19] 343c; CH 8 [1099a31-b8] 344d-345a; CH 10-11 345c-347a; BK VII, CH 13 [1153b14-24] 405a; BK X, CH 8 [1178b33-1179a16] 433c-d
Politics, BK VII, CH I 527a-d esp [1323b22-29] 527c-d; CH 13 [1331b39-1332a27] 536c-537a
Rhetoric, BK I, CH 5 [1360b14-30] 601a-b; [1361b27-35] 602b-c
BIBLE:
OLD TESTAMENT
Exodus, 20:17
Deuteronomy,11:13-17
Psalms, 34:9-10; 91; 112:1-3; 128; 144:11-15 (D) Psalms, 33:10-11; 90; 111:1-3; 127; 143:11-15
Proverbs, 10:27; 15:16-17; 16:8
Ecclesiastes, 2:4-11; 4:5-8; 5-6 esp 5:9-17 (D) Ecclesiastes, 2:4-11; 4:5-8; 5-6 esp 5:8-16
APOCRYPHA: Ecclesiasticus, 30:14-17 (D) OT, Ecclesiasticus, 30:14-17
NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew, 19:16-30
Philippians, 4:10-23
1 Timothy, 6
Hebrews, 13:5
12:
LUCRETIUS
Nature of Things, BK II [1-61] 15a-d; BK III [59-78] 30d-31a; [1076-1094] 44a,c; BK V [1113-1135] 75c-d
EPICTETUS
Discourses, BK IV, CH 6 230b-232c
14:
PLUTARCH
Solon, 74c-75c
Aemilitis Paulus, 224d-225c; 229a-c
Marcus Cato, 285c-d
Pyrrhus, 320c-321a
Caius Marius, 353d-354a,c
Demosthenes, 691b,d
15:
TACITUS
Annals, BK VI, 91c; BK XIV, 154a-c
17:
PLOTINUS
First Ennead, TR V 19b-21a
18:
AUGUSTINE
City of God, BK VIII, CH 8, 270a-b; BK XIX, CH 3, 510a-c; CH 13-14 519a-520d
19:
AQUINAS
Summa Theologica, PART 1, Q 26, A 4, ANS and REP 2 151c-152a,c; PART I-II, Q I, A 7, ANS 614c-615a; Q 2, AA 1-5 615d-619c esp A 4, ANS 618a-d; Q 4, AA 5-7 632c-636a; Q 5, A 4, ANS 639a-640b; Q 12, A 3, REP 1 670d-671b
21:
DANTE
Divine Comedy, HELL, VII [25-96] 9d-10c; PURGATORY, XV [40-81] 75d-76a
22:
CHAUCER
Prologue of Man of Law's Tale [4519-4546] 235b-236a
Tale of Melibeus, par 49-50 422a-423a
Parson's Tale, par 28, 515a
24:
RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK III, 133b-140b; BK IV, 234a-235a
25:
MONTAIGNE
Essays, 33b-36a; 108c-110c; 122a-124d; 126b-129d; 368d
26:
SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It, ACT II, SC I [1-20] 603c-d
27:
SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet, ACT III, SC II [68-79] 49c-d
Othello, ACT I, SC III [199-220] 211a-b
Sonnets, CXLVI 608c
30:
BACON
Advancement of Learning, 86b-c
31:
DESCARTES
Discourse, PART VI, 61a-d
36:
SWIFT
Gulliver, PART III, 124a-129a
37:
FIELDING:
Tom Jones, 2b; 263c-d; 283a-b
38:
ROUSSEAU
Inequality, 350c; 363a-366d
42: KANT
Fund. Prin. Metaphysic of Morals, 256a-b
Practical Reason, 330d-331a
Pref. Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, 370b-d
43:
MILL
Utilitarianism, 451d-452b; 462c-463b
44:
BOSWELL
Johnson, 102d-103a; 124d-125d; 349a-c; 403a; 491b; 492b-c; 494b; 498d-499a
51:
TOLSTOY
War and Peace, BK V, 194c-d; BK X, 430a-b; BK XI, 514b-d; BK XIII, 577a-578b; BK XIV, 605b-d; BK XV, 630c-631a
52
DOSTOEVSKY
Brothers Karamazov, BK VI, 164b-d
53:
JAMES
Psychology, 189a-b
54:
FREUD
Civilization and Its Discontents, 777a-779a

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