[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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