The Great Ideas

Topic 4a. Man's capacity for happiness: differences in human nature with respect to happiness

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AUTHOR

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ARISTOTLE

Ethics, BK I, CH 9 [1099b33-1100a9] 345b-c; BK VII, CH 14 [1154b20-30] 406c; BK X, CH 6 [1177a1-11] 431c; CH 7 [1177b26-1178a8] 432c; CH 8 432d-434a passim, esp [1178b23-32] 433c

Politics, BK VII, CH 8 [1328a37-b2] 532d; CH 13 [1331b24-1332a32] 536b-537a

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EPICTETUS

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

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PLUTARCH

Caius Marius, 353d-354a,c

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PLOTINUS

First Ennead, TR IV 12b-19b

Third Ennead, TR II, CH 4-5 84c-85c

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AQUINAS

Summa Theologica, PART I, Q 23, A 1, ANS and REP 2-3 132c-133b; Q 62, A 2, ANS and REP 2 318d-319c; PART I-II, Q 1, A 7 614c-615a; Q 5, AA 1-2 636d-638a; A 5 640b-641a

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DANTE

Divine Comedy, PURGATORY, XXVIII [91-148] 97a-c

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CHAUCER

Wife of Bath's Prologue [5583-6410] 256a-269b

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SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It, ACT IV, SC I [1-41] 617a-c; ACT V, SC IV [176-202] 625c-d

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BACON

Advancement of Learning, 70b-d; 73d-74a

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SPINOZA

Ethics, PART V, PROP 42 463b-d

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LOCKE

Human Understanding, BK II, CH XXI, SECT 42 188c; SECT 55-56 192c-193b; SECT 61 194b-c

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FIELDING

Tom Jones, 283a-b

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ROUSSEAU

Inequality, 338b-c; 342c-343b; 363a-366d passim

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KANT

Fund. Prin. Metaphysic of Morals, 256d-257d; 267b,d;

Practical Reason, 300 a-c; 304d-305d

Judgement, 584d-586a

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MILL

Liberty, 293b-302c esp 299b-c

Representative Government, 367d-368a

Utilitarianism, 448d-450a; 450c-453a; 461c-464d

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BOSWELL

Johnson, 144d-145a; 214b; 391d-392a

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HEGEL

Philosophy of Right, PART III, par 166 59d-60a

Philosophy of History, INTRO, 166b-168a

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MELVILLE

Moby Dick, 54b-55a; 122b-123a

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TOLSTOY

War and Peace, BK III, 117d; BK V, 215b-d; BK VI, 235a-238a; 262d-263a; BK VIII, 303a-305b; BK XI, 480a-482b; BK XIII, 577a-578b; BK XIV, 605b-d; BK XV, 630c-631c

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DOSTOEVSKY

Brothers Karamazov, BK V, 127b-137c passim; BK XI, 307c-310c

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JAMES

Psychology, 201a-202a

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FREUD

General Introduction, 633d-634a; 635c

Civilization and Its Discontents, 772b-c; 775c-776c

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