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Ancient Views on the Quality of Life

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
16. April 2015
Sprache
englisch
Auflage
2015
Seitenanzahl
104
Reihe
SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
Autor/Autorin
Alex C. Michalos
Produktart
kartoniert
Abbildungen
XI, 91 p. 8 illus.
Gewicht
172 g
Größe (L/B/H)
235/155/7 mm
Sonstiges
Paperback
ISBN
9783319165240

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Alex C. Michalos

Prof. Alex Michalos currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Brandon University. He is also the Director of Research for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and Emeritus Professor in Political Science at his former institution, the University of Northern British Columbia. Michalos has published 24 books, over 100 refereed articles, and founded or co-founded seven scholarly journals. Among the seven, he is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Business Ethics, the most frequently cited journal in the world devoted to business ethics, and Social Indicators Research, the first scholarly journal devoted to quality of life research. He is married to Dr. Deborah Poff, President and Vice-Chancellor of Brandon University.

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