The Great Ideas

Happiness

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Topic 3. The argument concerning happiness as a first principle of morality: the conflicting claims of duty and happiness

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

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ARISTOTLE
Ethics, BK I 339a-348d passim, esp CH 4 340b-d, CH 7 342c-344a, CH 12 347a-b
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EPICTETUS
Discourses, BK I, CH 22 127c-128c; BK II, CH 11 150a-151b; CH 19 162c-164b; BK III, CH 2 177c-178d; CH 10 185d-187a; CH 14 189c-190a; CH 24 203c-210a
AURELIUS
Meditations, BK II, SECT 258a-c; BK III, SECT 6 261a-c; BK VII, 55 283b-c; BK VIII, SECT I 285a-b; SECT 32 287d-288a; SECT 39 288c; BK IX, SECT I 291a-c; SECT 7 292b
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AUGUSTINE
City of God, BK IX, CH 4-5 287a-289a; BK XIV, CH 8-9 381c-385b
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AQUINAS
Summa Theologica, PART I-II, 609a-615c passim; Q 5, A 8 642d-643d
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AQUINAS continued
Summa Theologica, PART I-II, Q 9, A 1, ANS 206b-207a; Q 91, A 4, ANS 210c-211c; Q 94, A 2, ANS 221d-223a
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HOBBES
Leviathan, PART I, 76c-d
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RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK I, 65c-66b
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BACON
Advancement of Learning, 71d-72b
33:
PASCAL
Provincial Letters, 62b-68b
35:
LOCKE
Human Understanding, BK I, CH II, SECT 3, 104c; BK II, CH XXI, SECT 42-73 188c-199c passim
39:
SMITH
Wealth of Nations, BK V, 336c-d
42:
KANT
Pure Reason, 235a-b; 236b-239a
Fund, Prin. Metaphysic of Morals 253a-287d esp 256a-257d, 258d-259a, 261c-264a, 266a-b, 267b-d, 274d-275b, 282b-283d, 286a-c
Practical Reason 291a-361d esp 304d-307d, 325a-327d, 330c-331a, 338c-355d
Pref. Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, 365b-366d; 367c; 369c-373b
Intro. Metaphysic of Morals, 387b-388c; 389a-390a,c
Judgement, 478a-479a; 584d-587a; 588b [fn 2]; 591b-592c; 595a-c; 596c-597d; 604d-606d esp 604d-605c, 605d-606b [fn 2]
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MILL
Utilitarianism 445a-476a,c
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HEGEL
Philosophy of Right, PART II, par 124 44b-d; par 134-135 47b-d; PART III, par 155 57c; par 261 83a-d; ADDITIONS, 76-81 128a-129a; 85-87 129b-d
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DARWIN
Descent of Man, 316a-317a; 592d
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DOSTOEVSKY
Brothers Karamazov, BK V, 127b-137c passim
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FREUD
Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis, 20c-d
Civilization and Its Discontents, 772a-b; 800c-801b

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