Preface vii Introduction ix Daniel Nettle Part One HISTORICAL SOURCES 1(160) The Republic (selections) 3(16) Plato The Nicomachean Ethics (selections) 19(15) Aristotle Letter to Menoeceus 34(3) Epicurus Leading Doctrines 37(4) On the Happy Life (selections) 41(10) Seneca The Happy Life (selections) 51(9) Augustine Summa Contra Gentiles (selections) 60(8) Thomas Aquinas Leviathan (selections) 68(9) Thomas Hobbes Upon the Love of Our Neighbour 77(9) Joseph Butler The Sceptic 86(13) David Hume An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (selections) 99(4) Jeremy Bentham Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (selections) 103(10) Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (selections) 113(1) On the Variety and Suffering of Life (selections) 114(7) Arthur Schopenhauer Utilitarianism (selections) 121(23) John Stuart Mill Happiness and Duty 144(8) Henry Sidgwick On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life (selections) 152(5) Friedrich Nietzsche Forlornness 157(4) Jean-Paul Sartre Part Two CONTEMPORARY THEORIES 161(106) Happiness as Pleasure Pleasure and Happiness 163(10) Wayne Davis Why Hedonism Is False 173(6) Daniel Haybron Happiness as Satisfaction Attitudinal and Episodic Happiness 179(14) John Kekes Happiness and Time 193(8) Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz Happiness as More Than Satisfaction Two Conceptions of Happiness 201(21) Richard Kraut Virtue Ethics 222(14) Richard Taylor The Experience Machine 236(2) Robert Nozick Happiness as Achievement 238(7) Julia Annas Happiness and Virtue Virtue and Eudaimonism 245(16) Julia Annas Happiness and Immorality 261(6) Steven M. Cahn Jeffrie G. Murphy Happiness and Morality 267 Christine Vitrano