The Great Ideas

Topic 4. The pursuit of happiness

Volume GBWW [I]:

AUTHOR

Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

6:

HERODOTUS

History, BK I, 6c-8a; BK II, 77a-b; BK III, 98b-99a

9:

ARISTOTLE

Ethics, BK I, CH 10 345c-346c

11:

NICOMACHUS

Arithmetic, BK I, 811d

12:

LUCRETIUS

Nature of Things, BK III [1076-1094] 44a,c

EPICTETUS

Discourses, BK III, CH 24 203c-210a

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PLUTARCH

Solon, 66b-d; 74c-75b

Marius, 353d-354a,c

17:

PLOTINUS

First Ennead, TR IV 12b-19b Third Ennead, TR II, CH 4-5 84c-85c

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AUGUSTINE

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

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AQUINAS

Summa Theologica, PART I, Q 23, A 1 ANS and REP 2-3 132c-133b; PART I-II, Q 5 636d-643d

21:

DANTE

Divine Comedy esp PURGATORY, XXVII-XXXIII 94c-105d

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HOBBES

Leviathan, PART I, 76c-d; PART IV, 247c-d

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MONTAIGNE

Essays, 6d-7a; 149b-d; 541b-c

35:

LOCKE

Human Understanding, BK II, CH XXI, SECT 44 188d-189b; SECT 52 191d; SECT 63-64 194d-195b passim

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KANT

Practical Reason, 300a-d; 304d-307d; 345a-347a

Judgement, 584d-587a esp 584d-586a

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

17-151 1a-b

MILL

Utilitarianism, 448a-453a

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HEGEL

Philosophy of Right, PART II, par 123 44a-b; par 124, 44c; par 134 47b; PART III, par 207 69b-c; ADDITIONS, 78 128c-d

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MELVILLE

Moby Dick, 267a

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TOLSTOY

War and Peace, BK VI, 235a-238a; BK XIV, 605b-d

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DOSTOEVSKY

Brothers Karamazov, BK II, 25d-27d

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FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents, 771d-776b esp 772a-d, 775c; 799c

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