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Happiness, death, and the remainder of life
- Title
- Happiness, death, and the remainder of life / Jonathan Lear.
- Author
- Lear, Jonathan.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BF175.4.P45 L42 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 189 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. With Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle." "Aristotle attempted to ground ethical life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn't understand what happiness is any better than we do. Freud fared no better when he tried to ground human striving, aggression, and destructiveness in the death drive."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The Tanner lectures on human values
- Uniform Title
- Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.
- ISBN
- 0674003292 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00039705
- OCLC
- 45052609
- ocm45052609
- SCSB-3950449
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries