The Great Ideas

Happiness

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Topic 7b. The imperfection of temporal happiness: its failure to satisfy natural desire

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AUTHOR
Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

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AUGUSTINE
Confessions, BK IV, par 7-19 20d-24b; BK VIII, par 17 57d; BK IX, par 23-26 68a-d
City of God, BK VIII, CH 8 270a-d; BK XI CH 14-15 293a-294a; BK XII, CH 1 342b,d-343c; BK XIX, CH 4-10 511a-516d; CH 20 523d-524a; CH 27 529a-d
Christian Doctrine, BK I, CH 4 625b-c; CH 38 635c-d
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AQUINAS
Summa Theologica, PART I-II, Q 2, A 1, REP 3 615d-616c; A 3 617b-618a; A 8 621c-622b; Q 3, A 2, REP 4 623a-624b; AA 6-8 627b-629b; Q 5, A 1, REP 2 636d-637c; A 3 638b-639a; A 4, ANS 639a-640b; A 5 esp REP 3 640b-641a
20:
AQUINAS
Summa Theologica, PART I-II, Q 66, A 5, REP 2 79b-80c
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DANTE
Divine Comedy, PARADISE, XI [1-12] 122a
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CHAUCER
Knight's Tale [1303-1324] 181b
Nun's Priest's Tale [15,210-215] 456b
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HOBBES
Leviathan, PART I, 65a-b; 76c-d
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MONTAIGNE
Essays, 99b-100a
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CERVANTES
Don Quixote, PART II, 366d-367a
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MILTON
Paradise Lost, BK II [496-505] 122a
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PASCAL
Pensees, 106 193b; 109-110 193b-194a; 126-147 195b-201a; 156-157 201b-202a; 164-183 202b-204b; 184-241 205a-217b; 389 239b; 425-555 243b-270a passim
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LOCKE
Human Understanding, BK II, CH VII, SECT 5 132c; CH XXI, SECT 45 189b-d; SECT 61-62 194b-d; SECT 72 198a-c
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HUME
Human Understanding, SECT XI, DIV 107, 499d-500a
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ROUSSEAU
Inequality, 366c-d
42:
KANT
Practical Reason, 346b-347b
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BOSWELL
Johnson, 256d; 401a-b
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GOETHE
Faust, PART I [1544-1571] 37b-38a
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TOLSTOY
War and Peace, BK V, 216d-218b; BK VI, 273c-274a,c; BK XI, 525c-526b; BK XII, 560a-562a; EPILOGUE I, 650b; 659c-d; 671c-672a
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DOSTOEVSKY
Brothers Karamazov, BK V, 127b-137c passim; BK VI, 153d-167b

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