The Passion for Happiness

by Adam Potkay

Although widely perceived as inhabiting different, even opposed, literary worlds, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and David Hume (1711-1776) shared common ground as moralists. Adam Potkay traces their central concerns to Hellenistic philosophy, as conveyed by Cicero, and to earlier moderns such as Addison and Mandeville. Johnson's and Hume's large and diverse bodies of writings, Potkay says, are unified by several key questions: What is happiness? What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080143727X
• ISBN13: 9780801437274
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"