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On Happiness: Gilded Pocket Edition

by Epicurus

Epicurus on the good life

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Epicurus on the good life

Epicurus’s teachings bring questions of happiness into conversation with views on life and death, religion, science, friendship, and morality. The description highlights two connected ideas: the value of scientific observation in testing theories and the role of a simple, modest life in the pursuit of happiness. An introduction by Professor Nicholas Gooding accompanies the text. This pocket-sized hardcover edition features an embossed cover and gilded page edges.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers exploring ancient Greek philosophy and its history
  • Those interested in Epicurean ideas about happiness, friendship, and modest living
  • Shoppers seeking a compact illustrated-style edition of a classical philosophical text

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Happiness and the good lifeLife and deathScience and observationFriendship and morality

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Book overview

This elegant pocket hardback edition presents Epicurus' classic philosophical text on the pursuit of happiness, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.

On Happiness contains the Greek philosopher's teachings about life and death, religion and science, happiness, friendship and morality. His views were influential on later scientists and philosophers, such as Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbes and Karl Marx, given his thoughts on the value of scientific observation as the only way to prove theories and also his promotion of the idea that living a simple, modest life was the way to happiness.

This handsome pocket-sized gift edition includes an insightful introduction by Professor Nicholas Gooding and is presented with an embossed cover design; ivory pages; beautifully designed endpapers and goldgilded page edges. Part of the ArcturusOrnate Classics series; this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
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