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Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W.D. Ross, rev. J.L. Ackrill and J.O. Urmson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 4–5.
Ibid., p. 38.
See Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano, eds., Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 201–272.
Aristotle, op. cit., p. 1.
Ibid., p. 5.
Ibid., p. 14.
See Richard Kraut, “Two Conceptions of Happiness,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 88 (1979), pp. 170–171.
Ibid., pp. 180–181.
See Ibid., pp. 183–187; see also L.W. Sumner, Welfare, Happiness and Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 138–183.
See Robin Barrow, Happiness and Schooling (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980); see also Theodore Benditt, “Happiness,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 25 (1974); Richard Brandt, “Happiness,” in Paul Edwards, ed., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1967); Roger Montague, “Happiness,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 67 (1967); John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971); Nicholas Rescher, Welfare (Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972); L.W. Sumner, op. cit.; Elizabeth Telfer, Happiness (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980); and Georg Henrik Von Wright, The Varieties of Goodness (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1996).
Jean Austin, “Pleasure and Happiness,” Philosophy, vol. 43 (1968), pp. 60–62.
Sumner, op. cit., p. 156.
See Richard Warner, Freedom, Enjoyment and Happiness: An Essay on Moral Psychology (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987), pp. 19–25.
Robert W. Simpson, “Happiness,” American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 12 (1975), p. 173.
See Julia Annas, “Happiness as Achievement,” Daedalus (Spring 2004).
See John Kekes, “Happiness,” Mind, vol. 91 (1982).
Ibid., pp. 367–370.
Kraut, op. cit., p. 178.
Ibid., p. 179.
Ibid., p. 180.
Ibid., p. 179.
Robert Nozick, The Examined Life (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1989), p. 111.
Sarah Buss, “The Irrationality of Unhappiness and the Paradox of Despair,” the Journal of Philosophy, vol. 101 (2004), pp. 167–196.
Ibid., p. 170.
Ibid.
See Steven M. Cahn and Jeffrie G. Murphie, “Happiness and Immorality,” in Cahn and Vitrano, op. cit., pp. 263–266.
I would like to thank Steven M. Cahn for his thoughtful comments on the first draft of this article. I would also like to express my appreciation to Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, and an anonymous referee for their helpful suggestions.
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Vitrano, C. The Subjectivity of Happiness. J Value Inquiry 44, 47–54 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9208-2
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