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God and Happiness

God and Happiness

God and Happiness

Matthew Shea, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio
December 2024
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    This Element explores the connection between God and happiness, with happiness understood as a life of well-being or flourishing that goes well for the one living it. It provides a historical and contemporary survey of philosophical questions, theories, and debates about happiness, and it asks how they should be answered and evaluated from a theistic perspective. The central topics it covers are the nature of happiness (what is it?), the content of happiness (what are the constituents of a happy life?), the structure of happiness (is there a hierarchy of goods?), and the possibility of happiness (can we be happy?). It argues that God's existence has significant, positive, and desirable implications for human happiness.

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    December 2024
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781009270168
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    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The concept of happiness
    • 2. The nature of happiness
    • 3. The content and structure of happiness
    • 4. The possibility of happiness
    • 5. The hope of happiness
    • References.
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    • Matthew Shea , Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio