Ancient views on the quality of life
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Ancient views on the quality of life
(Springer briefs in well-being and quality of life research)
Springer, 2015
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Bibliographiy: p.87-90
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE, the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western philosophical and scientific history that were significantly related to current research and understanding of the quality of life or well-being for individuals and communities. It examines the problems and solutions found in these texts and their connection to still current fundamental issues and questions such as: 'What is a good life?', 'What is the best sort of person to be?' 'How can one tell if one's society is making progress to some sort of desirable state or falling backwards?' The book shows that across time and across many cultures, the human species bears some remarkable similarities.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Introduction.- Homer (eighth century BCE).- Hesiod of Ascra (late eighth/early seventh century BCE).- Pythagoras of Samos (c.570 - c.490 BCE).- Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.540 - c.480 BCE).- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c.500 - c.428 BCE).- Empedocles of Acragas (c.492 - c.432 BCE).- Protagoras of Abdera (c.490 - c.420 BCE).- Antiphon of Rhamnous (c.480 - 411 BCE).- Democritus of Abdera (c.460 - c.370 BCE).- Hippocrates of Cos (c.450 - c.380 BCE).- Antisthenes of Athens (c.446 - c.366 BCE).- Aristippus of Cyrene ("the Elder", c.436 - 356 BCE).- Plato of Athens (427 - 347 BCE).- Anonymous Iamblichi (c.400 BCE).- Diogenes of Sinope (c.400 - c.323 BCE).- Aristotle of Stageira (384 - 322 BCE).- Epicurus of Samos (c.341 - 271 BCE).- Zeno of Citium (c.333 - 261 BCE).- Summary.
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