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The Conquest of Happiness (Routledge Classics) by: Bertrand Russell List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £8.99 You Save: £1.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780415378475 ISBN: 0415378478 Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: February 01, 2006 Publisher: Routledge Studio: Routledge Sales Rank: 28265 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Drag yourself out of that pit of miseryBertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher and Nobel prize winner,appears to have lived a full and interesting life for 97 years so his philosophy to achieve happiness should be well worth a look. I like the easy to read format, chapters that may be read at your leisure one at a time or even read the whole book in one sitting. BR looks at the reasons for unhappiness ie Boredom, envy, being a victim, having a persecution complex etc and gives very good advice, often hilariously funny, to change your way of thinking, if that is your problem. So, if something really upsets you keep thinking about it, force yourself to think about it until it becomes so tiresome and boring that you never want to think about it again, he says. ... Read More: Rating:  - An Excellent Read and Practical I have to say that when I bought this book I was pretty skeptical and even cynical about the topic matter, having read Russell's History of Western Philosophy and some of the other titles in the Routledge Classics and expecting something similar. I was very pleasantly surprised and intend to re-read this book annually, Russell wrote this book for a mass audience, combining philosophy, psychology and common sense Russell first surveys what he believes to be the main causes of unhappiness, byronic unhappiness, competition, boredom and excitment, fatigue, envy, the sense of sin, persecution mania and fears of public opinion, and then proceeds to consider the possible sources of happiness Zest, affection, the family, work, impersonal ... Read More: Rating: - Very enjoyable book if you suffer from unhappiness sometimesWhen searching in an online library with the keyword 'happiness' yesterday I was surprised to find a book by Bertrand Russell. The scope of his output was amazing, and it seems all to be very high quality. I was searching for a book that might cheer me up because I was feeling down, and this book really did cheer me up. It isn't mindless optimism but is good common sense on how to avoid a lot of the main causes of unhappiness. Russell was a brilliant scholar and suffered from unhappiness himself at times in his life, and he was even suicidal through most of his youth, and here he shares his own solutions in order to help others. Russell was a great altruist and I'm grateful for him to have shared these bits of common sense. There are chapters ... Read More: Rating: - A Do-it-yourself guide to happinessHalf DIY happiness guide and half philosophy of human behaviour. On the whole a complete must read. Russell manages to condense into a short and enjoyable book his personal views on why we are happy or unhappy. He identifies causes of unhappiness and gives practical remedies for them. He shows us the sources of happiness and helps us profit from them. A deeply penetrating book I found most of it very relevant and practical both for understanding yourself and others, and for being happier. Read it, it gives us the education for life we should get at school. And remember enthusiasm is one of the most important source of happiness, live with enthusiasm and you will enjoy Rating: - He never intended this as a "philosophical masterpiece"One of the reviewers complained that this was not a "philosophical masterpiece". Of course it isn't. It's an excellent work of popular psychology aimed at the layman. As Russell himself commented: "Unsophisticated readers, for whom it was intended, liked it... Highbrows, on the contrary regarded it as a contemptible pot-boiler..." These words are from Russell's autobiography. The contention of the same reviewer that Russell was a deeply unhappy man is a plump over-simplification of the truth that anyone who is brilliant and intellectually rigorous as Russell was will never - in Russell's own words - find consolation in philosophy. Never satisfied by anything less then what could be backed up by fact he suffered from the corresponding ... Read More: |
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