History and human flourishing /

"What is the value of history for life? And how, if at all, might historians and their work contribute to human flourishing and well-being? Those are the straightforward, if capacious, questions that the distinguished contributors to this volume were asked to consider. The essays gathered here...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McMahon, Darrin M. (Author, Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:	Humanities and human flourishing.
Subjects:	History > Philosophy. Success. Conduct of life. Well-being. Histoire > Philosophie. Succès. Morale pratique. Bien-être. ethics (philosophical concept) comfort (sensation) Conduct of life History > Philosophy Success Well-being History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Series
History and Human Flourishing
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. History, the Humanities, and the Human
2. In Defense of Presentism
3. The Power of a Well-Told History
4. Well-Being and a Usable Past: The Role of Historical Diagnosis
5. Living the Good Life, Even Without Trying: The Strange Case of Consistent Luckiness in Aristotle
6. The Historical Sublime
7. Flourishing with Herodotus
8. On the Consolations of History
9. "Beauty Is Universal": Virtue, Aesthetics, Emotion, and Race in James Logan's Atlantic Moral Sense Philosophy
10. Toward a History of Black Happiness: Or, What Can African American History Tell Us about the Cultivation of Well-Being?
Index.