EAN: 9783319165240

ANCIENT VIEWS ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE - ALEX C M...

This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made
by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point
of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient
texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE  the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western
philosophical and scientific history that were significantly related to current research and
understanding of the quality of life or well-being for individuals and communities. It examines
the problems and solutions found in these texts and their connection to still current
fundamental issues and questions such as: 'What is a good life?'  'What is the best sort of
person to be?' 'How can one tell if one's society is making progress to some sort of desirable
state or falling backwards?' The book shows that across time and across many cultures  the
human species bears some remarkable similarities.

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