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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Darrin McMahon's "Happiness" - A History That Ended Too Soon


ahlam1399
08-28-2019, 10:48 PM
Darrin McMahon is an immensely skilled historian and writer. His book, "Happiness... a History" is captivating. Yet, it may have been a single chapter short of being a philosophical landmark. McMahon's history of happiness reaches back as far as Socrates, takes us through the middle ages, the Enlightenment, and the Post-Enlightenment. He includes an impressive number of protagonists, including (but by no means limited to) Locke, Jefferson, Hume, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, and unfortunately, ends his history with Sigmund Freud. How much more replete and uplifting his book would have been if McMahon had elected to include the man who discovered the most happy and productive people in the world, Abraham Maslow.

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