A history of the philosophy of happiness

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Philosophers have suggested various ways to live, and attitudes to hold, in order to maximise happiness. Here I go though what many of them have said over the years in the western world, starting with Socrates.
I probably should not have written the notes with the dates of all the people I planned to talk about - I used few of the dates, and ended up being distracted by them.
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Plato image by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Aristotle image by After Lysippos - Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Epicurus image by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011), Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Zeno of Citium image by the Fondo Paolo Monti, owned by BEIC and located in the Civico Archivio Fotografico of Milan., CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
Stoa of Attalos image by Lloyd (AKA Lindybeige)
Cicero image by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
Epictetus image by William Sonmans - archive.org/de..., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Marcus Aurelius image by Daniel Martin - Photothèque du musée Saint-Raymond, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
Saint Augustine image by Philippe de Champaigne - Los Angeles County Museum of Art: online database: entry 171584, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Thomas Aquinus image by Carlo Crivelli - www.nationalgal..., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Martin Luther image by Lucas Cranach the Elder - GalleriX, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
John Locke image by Godfrey Kneller - Own work, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Jeremy Bentham image by Henry William Pickersgill (died 1875) - Public Domain, commons.wikime...
John Stuart Mill image by George Frederic Watts - National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Jean Jaques Rousseau image by Maurice Quentin de La Tour - Unknown source, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Goethe image by Joseph Karl Stieler - Transferred from nds.wikipedia to Commons..org by G.Meiners at 12:05, 15. Okt 2005., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Imanuel Kant image by Unknown, possibly Elisabeth von Stägemann (Anton Graff school) - original from the Norwegian Digital Learning Arena (NDLA) ndla.no/image/..., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Derren Brown image by Andrew West
David Strauss image by Die Gartenlaube, Nr. 4 /1908, S. 83 (Rudolf Krauß: David Friedrich Strauß / Zu seinem hundertsten Geburtstage), Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Karl Marx image by John Jabez Edwin Mayal - International Institute of Social History, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Nietzche image by Friedrich Hermann Hartmann - s-media-cache-..., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Sigmund Freud image by Max Halberstadt - www.christies...., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Phineus Parkhearst Quimby image courtesy of George A. Quimby, Quimby's son - Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, Doubleday, 1909, between pages 48 and 49., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
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