The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings

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Daniel G. Brinton. The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings

The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings

Table of Contents

PART I. Happiness as the Aim of Life

PART II. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Nature and Fate

PART III. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Ourselves

PART IV. How Far Our Happiness Depends on Others

PART V. The Consolations of Affliction

PART I

I. Is a Guide to Happiness Possible? And, if Possible, is it Desirable?

II. The Definition of Happiness

III. The Relative Value of Pleasures

IV. The Distribution of Happiness

V. Principles of a Self-Education for the Promotion of One’s Own Happiness

PART II

I. Our Bodily and Mental Constitutions

II. Our Physical Surroundings

III. Luck and its Laws

PART III

I. Our Occupations, those of Necessity and those of Choice

II. Money-making, its Laws and its Limits

III. The Pleasures we may Derive from our Senses

IV. The Pleasures we may Derive from our Emotions

V. The Pleasures we may Derive from the Intellect

VI. The Satisfaction of the Religious Sentiment

VII. The Cultivation of Our Individuality

PART IV

I. What Others Give Us: Safety, Liberty, Education

II. What we Owe Others: Morality, Duty, Benevolence

III. The Practice of Business and the Enjoyment of Society

IV. On Fellowship, Comradeship and Friendship

V. Love, Marriage, and the Family Relation

PART V

I. The Removal of Unhappiness

II. The Inseparable Connection of Pleasure and Pain

III. The Education of Suffering

INDEX

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Daniel G. Brinton

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Happiness the Only Standard of Value.—​The Strange Law of Evolution.—​The Ideal of Humanity.—​The Position of Dogmatic Religion.-The Unhappiness Produced by Religions.—​The Happiness Derived from Religions.—​The Doctrine of Faith.—​Morality and Religion.—​Erroneous Estimate of the Moral Life.—​True Religious Unity.—​The Religion of the Future.

Strowingspp. 169−180

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