The Great Ideas

Happiness

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Topic 2b(5) The importance of friendship and love for happiness

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AUTHOR
Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

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HOMER
Iliad BK XVIII [1-137] 130a-131c
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PLATO
Lysis 18d
Phaedrus, 126c-129d
Symposium, 155d-157a; 164c-167d
Republic, BK III, 325b-c; BK IX, 417b-418a
Critias, 485b-c
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ARISTOTLE
Ethics, BK I, CH 11 346c-347a; BK VIII, CH 1 [1155a1-32] 406b,d; CH 3 [1156b6-32] 408a-c; CH 5 [1157b25-38] 409c-d; CH 6 [1158a22-28] 410a-b; BK IX, CH 9 423a-424b; CH 11 425a-d
Politics, BK I, CH 2 [1253a25-29] 446c-d
Rhetoric, BK I, CH 5 [1360b19-27] 601a
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LUCRETIUS
Nature of Things, BK IV [1058-1191] 57d-59d
EPICTETUS
Discourses, BK II, CH 22 167d-170a; BK III, CH 16 191a-d; BK IV, CH 2 223d-224b
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PLUTARCH
Poplicola - Solon, 86a-b
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AUGUSTINE
Confessions, BK IV, par 7-14 20d-23a
City of God, BK XIX, CH 3, 510d; CH 5-9 513d-516c; CH 13-14 519a-520d; CH 17 522b-523a, CH 26 528d-529a
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AQUINAS
Summa Theologica, PART I-II, Q 4, A 8 636a-c
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DANTE
Divine Comedy, HELL, V [70-138] 7d-8b; PURGATORY, XV [40-81] 75d-76a; XVII [82]-XVIII [75] 79b-80c
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CHAUCER
Troilus and Cressida, BK II, STANZA 111-112 36a; STANZA 119-128 37a-38a; BK III, STANZA 1-7 54b-55b; STANZA 117-120 69b-70a; STANZA 241-242 86a; STANZA 50-253 87a-b
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RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK I, 65c-66b
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MONTAIGNE
Essays, 87d-88a
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SHAKESPEARE
Love's Labour's Lost, ACT IV, SC III 268b-272c
Midsummer-Night's Dream, ACT I, SC I [67-78] 353a-b
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SHAKESPEARE continued
Othello, ACT IV, SC II [47-64] 233c-d
King Lear, ACT V, SC III [1-26] 279a-b
Timon of Athens, ACT I, SC II 397a-400a; ACT III, SC II [71-94] 404c-d; ACT IV, SC I 409c-d; SC III [249-305] 413c-414a
Sonnets, XXV 590a
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SPINOZA
Ethics, PART IV, PROP 37, DEMONST and SCHOL I, 434b-435a; APPENDIX, IX 448a
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PASCAL
Pensees, 100 191a-192b; 155 201b; 211 211b
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MONTESQUIEU
Spirit of Laws, BX XIV, 103c-d
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MILL
Representative Government, 367d-368a
Utilitarianism, 451b-c
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BOSWELL
Johnson, 83b-c; 107a; 423c-d; 490a
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GOETHE
Faust, PART I [3125-3136] 76a-b; [3374-3413] 82b-83a; PART II [9356-9573] 227a-232a
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MELVILLE
Moby Dick, 36b-39b
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TOLSTOY
War and Peace, BK III, 116c-117a; 122b-c; BK V, 214c-215b; BK XI, 525c-526b; BK XV, 642c-643b
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DOSTOEVSKY
Brothers Karamazov, BK II, 27c-d; BK VI, 158b-159a; 167b-168c; 169c-170b
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FREUD
Civilization and Its Discontents, 774d-775a; 782d-783b; 792a-d

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