• Abbreviations and translations of texts used


• Introduction


• Part 1. Happiness, then and now


• 1: Happiness, eudaimonia, and practical reasoning


• 2: Happiness as eudaimonia


• 3: Happiness and virtuous activity


• 4: New directions from old debates


• Part 2. Happiness then: the sufficiency debate


• 5: Aristotle's case against the sufficiency thesis


• 6: Socrates' case for the sufficiency thesis


• 7: Epictetus and the Stoic self


• 8: The Stoics' case for the sufficiency thesis


• Part 3. Happiness now: rethinking the self


• 9: The embodied conception of the self


• 10: The embodied conception and psychological well-being


• 11: The Stoics' case against the embodied conception


• Works cited


• Index locorum


• General index

Daniel C. Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona. He is the author of Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (Oxford, 2005), Practical Intelligence and the Virtues (Oxford, 2009), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Daniel C. Russell presents a new account of happiness and how to live a good life. He returns to the ancient tradition of eudaimonism to argue that happiness is a life of activity that involves acting for the sake of ends we can live for. It is not only fulfilling for us as humans and individuals, but inseparable from what makes us who we are.