[B-Greek] "Eudaimonia": book review

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Jul 20 06:01:29 EDT 2004


A Bryn Mawr Classical Review of:
Lawrence J. Jost, Roger A. Shiner, Eudaimonia and Well-Being: Ancient and 
Modern Conceptions. is available on:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-07-38.html

 >> The volume Eudaimonia and Well-Being (a collection of ten papers  presented
at a conference at the University of Cincinnati in 1993) shows that English
terms such as happiness, well-being, and flourishing can have significantly
different connotations which complicate  our  understanding  of  the  Greek
term. The volume's contributors work  in  both  ancient  Greek  ethics  and
Anglophone contemporary moral philosophy, and although not all  the  papers
bridged the divide between classics and philosophy, on the whole the volume
succeeds in elucidating the different meanings  "happiness"  has  for  both
contemporary and ancient Greek philosophers.<<


Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie






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