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God and Happiness

Expected online publication date:  26 July 2024

Matthew Shea
Affiliation:
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio

Summary

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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Online ISBN: 9781009270182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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God and Happiness
  • Matthew Shea, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio
  • Online ISBN: 9781009270182
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God and Happiness
  • Matthew Shea, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio
  • Online ISBN: 9781009270182
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God and Happiness
  • Matthew Shea, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio
  • Online ISBN: 9781009270182
Available formats No formats are currently available for this content.
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