Friendship and Happiness: And the Connection Between the Two
Aug 2017 · McFarland
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This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship--friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations--casual friends, close friends, best friends--are described, along with the growing phenomena of virtual friendships and cyber socialization in the Internet age. Inspired in part by Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, the authors propose that conquering unhappiness is key to achieving the self-satisfaction Russell called zest and Aristotle called eudaimonia or thriving by our own efforts.
About the author
Tim Delaney is a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego. He regularly publishes in such areas, and teaches such sociology courses as, social theory, environmental sociology, social deviance and the sociology of sport. Tim Madigan is a professor and department chair of philosophy at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He is a past president of the Northeast Popular Culture Association.
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