The Great Ideas
Happiness
from Bibliography of Additional Readings
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Bibliography of Additional Readings,
which contains hyperlinks to an on-line edition, if available.
Listed below are works not included in Great Books of the Western World,
but relevant to the idea and topics with which this chapter deals.
These works are divided into two groups:
I. Works by authors represented in this collection.
II. Works by authors not represented in this collection.
- PLUTARCH
- "Of the Tranquillity of the Mind," in Moralia
- "Whether Vice is Sufficient to Render a Man Unhappy," in Moralia
- AUGUSTINE
- The Happy Life
- AQUINAS
- Summa Contra Gentiles, BK 1, CH 100-102; BK III, CH I7-63
- DANTE
- Convivio (The Banquet), FOURTH TREATISE, CH 12
- On World-Government or De Monarchia, BK III, CH 16
- HUME
- An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- A. SMITH
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments, PART VI
- KANT
- Lectures on Ethics
- DOSTOEVSKY
- Notes from Underground
- The Idiot
- CICERO
- De Finibus (On the Supreme Good)
- Tusculan Disputations, V
- SENECA
- De Beata Vita (On the Happy Life)
- SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
- Against the Ethicists
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism, BK III, CH 21-32
- POMERIUS
- The Contemplative Life
- BOETHIUS
- The Consolation of Philosophy, BK III
- ABAILARD.
- Ethics (Scito Teipsum)
- MAIMONIDES
- The Guide for the Perplexed, PART III, CH 8-9
- NICOLAS OF CUSA
- The Vision of God
- TERESA OF JESUS
- The Way of Perfection
- SUAREZ
- Disputationes Metaphysicae, XXX (II, 14)
- JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Ascent of Mount Carmel
- S. JOHNSON
- History of Rasselas
- HUTCHESON
- A System of Moral Philosophy
- VOLTAIRE
- Candide
- PALEY
- Moral Philosophy, BK I. CH 6
- T. REID
- Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind, III, PART III, CH 1-4
- BENTHAM
- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, CH I
- WORDSWORTH
- The Prelude
- SCHOPENHAUER
- The World as Will and Idea, VOL I, BK IV; VOL III, SUP, CH 45-50
- LEOPARDI
- Essays, Dialogues, and Thoughts
- WHEWELL
- The Elements of Morality, BK II, CH 25
- KIERKEGAARD
- Philosophical Fragments
- Concluding Unscientific Postscript
- LOTZE
- Microcosmos, BK VIII, CH 2
- FLAUBERT
- Madame Bovary
- EMERSON
- The Conduct of Life
- H. SIDGWICK
- The Methods of Ethics, BK II, CH 1-6; BK III, CH 14; BK IV
- IBSEN
- A Doll's House
- NIETZSCHE
- Beyond Good and Evil
- The Will to Power
- HAUPTMANN
- The Weavers
- CHEKHOV
- Three Sisters
- MANN
- Buddenbrooks
- DEWEY and TUFTS
- Ethics, PART II, CH 14-15
- MOORE
- Principia Ethica, CH 2-3
- Ethics, CH 1-2
- UNAMUNO
- The Tragic Sense of Life
- B. RUSSELL
- What I Believe, CH 4-5
- Skeptical Essays, VIII
- A. E. TAYLOR
- The Faith of a Moralist, SERIES I (9)
- KIRK
- The Vision of God
- SANTAYANA
- Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy, CH 4
- MARITAIN
- Scholasticism and Politics, CH VII
- ADLER
- A Dialectic of Morals
- LUBAC
- Surnaturel
- O'CONNOR
- The Eternal Quest
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