The Great Ideas

Topic 2b(6) The effect of political power or status on happiness

Volume GBWW [I]:

AUTHOR

Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

6:

HERODOTUS

History, BK I, 6c-8a

7:

PLATO

Euthydemus, 75c-76b

Gorgias, 262a-270a esp 262a-265c

Republic, BK I, 304a-c; BK II, 311a-313a; BK IX, 416a-421a esp 418d-421a; BK X, 439b-440c

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ARISTOTLE

Ethics, BK X, CH 7-8 431d-434a passim, esp CH 7 [1177b4-25] 432a-c, CH 8 [1178b33-1179a15] 433c-d

Politics, BK VII, CH 2-3 528a-530a; CH 14 [1333a17]-CH 15 [1334b8] 538a-539b

12:

LUCRETIUS

Nature of Things, BK II [37-61] 15c-d; BK III [59-78] 30d-31a; [995-1002] 42d-43a; BK V [1117-1135] 75d

EPICTETUS

Discourses, BK IV, CH 4-6 225a-232c; CH 9-10 237d-240d

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PLUTARCH

Numa Pompilius, 51c-52b

Solon, 74c-75c

Pyrrhus, 320c-321a

Nicias, 425b-c

Crassus 438b,d-455a,c

Demosthenes, 70la-702a

15:

TACITUS

Annals, BK XIV, 154a-c

17:

PLOTINUS

First Ennead, TR V, CH 10 20d-21a

18:

AUGUSTINE

City of God, BK V, CH 24-26 227d-230a,c; BK XIX, CH 5-7 513d-515c; CH 19 523b-d

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AQUINAS

Summa Theologica, PART I, Q 26, A 4, ANS 151c-152a,c; PART I-II, Q 2, A 4 618a-d

20:

AQUINAS continued

Summa Theologica, PART I-II, Q 66, A 5, REP 1-2 79b-80c

21:

DANTE

Divine Comedy, HELL, XII [100-139] 17b-d; PURGATORY, XI [73-117] 69c-70a; PARADISE, VI 113c-115a

23:

HOBBES

Leviathan, PART I, 76c-d

25:

MONTAIGNE

Essays, 107a-112d; 126b-131a; 382b-383d; 400b-d; 443d-446a; 486b-489b; 538d-540b

26:

SHAKESPEARE

3rd Henry VI, ACT II, SC V [1-54] 81d-82a

Richard II, ACT IV, SC I [162-334] 343b-345a

2nd Henry IV, ACT III, SC I [4-31] 482d-483a

Henry V, ACT IV, SC I [247-301] 554a-c

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CERVANTES

Don Quixote, PART I, 193a-b; PART II, 368c-d

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ROUSSEAU

Inequality, 326b-327a; 362b-d; 364a-b

Political Economy, 372b-377b esp 373c-374a

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GIBBON

Decline and Fall, 157b-d; 572a-c

41:

GIBBON continued

Decline and Fall, 194a-d; 297c-298a

43:

MILL

Representative Government, 382b

Utilitarianism, 462c-463b passim

46:

HEGEL

Philosophy of History, INTRO, 167b-c

51:

TOLSTOY

War and Peace, BK V, 215d-216d

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FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents, 799c

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