Happiness, death, and the remainder of life / Jonathan Lear.

"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 h...

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Main Author: Lear, Jonathan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Series:Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
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