| 1. | "... capacity of all men to know and attain
true human happiness is the pivot on which turns the decision for or
against classical versus modern philosophy
Christianity, however, does not understand man to be, before all
else, a citizen."
| Source: | Merrill, Clark A. "Leo Strauss's Indictment of Christain Philosophy" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 77
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| 2. | " And even
if this difference were to become greater in terms of the relative
strength and extent of individual capacities, it would not have a more
marked effect on the relations among individuals and on factors
affecting their independence and their happiness."
| Source: | Baker, Keith Michael. "Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind: tenth epoch" Daedalus 133.3 June 22 2004: 65-83
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| 3. | " It is a simple operation that
espouses the human desire for happiness and well-being and allows God to
be known in a way that both respects humanity and allows God to be God."
| Source: | LONSDALE, DAVID. "UNE AUTRE CONNAISSANCE DE DIEU: LE DISCERNEMENT CHEZ IGNACE DE LOYOLA" Theological Studies 60.1 Mar. 1 1999: 158-159
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| 4. | " Rather than
jumping to any easy conclusions at this point, Davison succeeds in
capturing the nature of the tragic in Camus: the picture of a man like
Meursault snatching happiness from the absurd and treasuring it before
death."
| Source: | Williams, James S. "Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky" Journal of European Studies 28.4 Dec. 1 1998: 425-427
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| 5. | "... before The Wealth of
Nations, Smith said of the poor: "In what constitutes the real
happiness of human life, they are in no respect inferior to those who
would seem so much above them."
| Source: | Britten, Daniel. "Progress and the Invisible Hand: The Philosophy and Economics ofHuman Advance" New Statesman (1996) v127.n4396 July 31 1998: 48-50
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| 6. | " The second appeared in 1803 with a
revised title, An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of
its past and present effects on Human Happiness; with an inquiry into
our prospects respecting the future..."
| Source: | Rickard, Suzanne. "CONVERSATIONS WITH MALTHUS" History Today 49.12 Dec. 1 1999: 47
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| 7. | " In the
course of the investigation it appears that man's language function
is of paramount importance for his happiness since it affects directly
the functioning of his nervous system and hence his adjustment to the
world outside his skin, including other human beings."
| Source: | Brewer, Joseph. "Education and the modern world" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 51.4 Dec. 1 2004: 487-494
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| 8. | " All of these question the fundamental
presuppositions of the western scientific objectification of nature, as
well as the necessary relation between technology and human happiness."
| Source: | Gottlieb, Roger S. "Nature's Keeper" Social Theory and Practice 25.1 Mar. 22 1999: 149
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| 9. | "... the
existence of such a power, which apportions happiness in accordance with
a human being's merit or guilt, a power ordering the whole of
nature and governing the world with supreme wisdom? that is, any grounds
for believing in God? (6:482)."
| Source: | Firestone, Chris L. "Kant and religion: conflict or compromise?" Religious Studies 35.2 June 1 1999: 151-153
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| 10. | " It is a philosophy of
life, reflecting the fact that "change and self-transformation are
among the truest expressions of our enduring human nature." The key
to happiness, according to the "dynamist moral vision," thus
lies in endless opportunities "to stretch ourselves" and
"to..."
| Source: | Casse, Daniel. "The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress" Commentary 107.4 Apr. 1 1999: 62-63
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| 11. | "
The mainstream philosophes, favouring varieties of absolute rule or
limited monarchy, were less concerned with the nature of government than
with how far it advanced human happiness through the maintenance..."
| Source: | LENTIN, A. "The Enlightenment" Journal of European Studies 30.1 Mar. 1 2000: 113
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| 12. | " Philosophers from Francis Bacon
to John Dewey have emphasized the increased power over nature that
scientific knowledge affords and how it can contribute immeasurably to
human advancement and happiness."
| Source: | Kurtz, Paul. "Humanist Manifesto 2000" Free Inquiry 19.4 Sept. 22 1999: 5
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| 13. | "
In The Science Of Happiness: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Mood
(Wiley, 2000), science writer Stephen Braun argues that even
"normal" people may soon rely on new drugs to subtly sculpt
their mood and personality, and enhance their overall capacity for
happiness."
| Source: | Chance, Paul. "bookworms" Psychology Today 33.3 May 1 2000: 77
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| 14. | " Because he was
convinced that a complete pluralism teaches a truth about mankind and
the world that is incompatible with the necessary conditions of human
happiness as he understands them. [20] For Herder, man..."
| Source: | Linker, Damon. "The Reluctant Pluralism of J. G. Herder" Review of Politics 62.2 Mar. 22 2000: 268
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| 15. | "
They insist that he who "depends on himself for everything, or
nearly everything, that brings happiness," the man, that is, whose
independence from other human..."
| Source: | Collins, Susan D.,Stauffer, Devin. "The challenge of Plato's 'Menexenus.'" Review of Politics 61.1 Jan. 1 1999: 85-88
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| 16. | " We spoke spontaneously; we shared specific
career pains and private existential angst; we traded individual joys
and marveled at life's capacity to afford happiness; and we laughed
until we said our good-byes, each of us with a renewed sense of
well-being."
| Source: | Boruch, Frank. "We can be heroes *." Physician Executive 25.2 Mar. 1 1999: 44-51
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| 17. | " Indeed+ natural law theories must rest on faith, whether in a
supreme being or simply in the fundamental goodness of humanity and its
capacity for mutual happiness and justice."
| Source: | Nifong, William R. "Promises past: Marcus Atilius Regulus and the dialogue of natural law" Duke Law Journal 49.4 Feb. 1 2000: 1077
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| 18. | " If I must depend on human differences to
flourish, it is not in my interest for everyone to be like me. Indeed,
Aristotle argues that human beings find individual happiness and social
harmony only when difference..."
| Source: | SMITH, THOMAS W. "Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good" American Political Science Review 93.3 Sept. 1 1999: 625
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| 19. | " This includes not only killing but the
creation of conditions that materially or psychologically destroy or
diminish people's dignity, happiness, and capacity to fulfill basic
material needs" (25)."
| Source: | NORDEN, MARTIN F. "INTRODUCTION: The Changing Face of Evil in film and Television" Journal of Popular Film and Television 28.2 June 22 2000: 50
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| 20. | " No one
will deny that their satisfaction is small, that this kind of safety,
authority, and recognition add little to our capacity for happiness or
liveliness or wisdom."
| Source: | . "For Prizewinners" Review of Contemporary Fiction 19.3 Sept. 22 1999: 83
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| 21. | " Eros+ or the drive towards
life, drives us towards love, happiness, and even the capacity to bear
pain and frustration in the pursuit of life's aims."
| Source: | Thompson, M. Guy. "Freud's Theory of Culture: Eros, Loss, and Politics" Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 35.1 Mar. 22 2004: 137-143
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| 22. | "
Success Intelligence Robert Holden Hodder Mobius, February 10.99
[pounds sterling], 0340830174
Focuses on how people mistake being busy as the road to success;
the author argues that instead it is detrimental to achieving goals and
affects our capacity for happiness."
| Source: | Ariaratnam, Suresh. "Mind, body & spirit titles: Suresh Ariaratnam of Books Etc selects the best new titles from publishers' lists" Bookseller .5154 Nov. 12 2004: 30-36
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| 23. | "... love; respect; mutual trust; satisfaction with sex; moments
of great happiness; or lack of a safe refuge (Choice & Lamke, 1997;
Marshall, 1996; Mwamwenda, 1995; Raasch, 1996)."
| Source: | MWAMWENDA, TUNTUFYE S. "Gender Differences in Attitudes Toward Wife Battering" Journal of Social Psychology 139.6 Dec. 1 1999: 790
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| 24. | "
Ignoring Pang's facial contortions, Heimloch continued.
"So you attach the false idea of a fixed essence called 'I
am' to your sense of you-worth, you-respect, happiness, confidence,
emotional stability, and your picture..."
| Source: | JOHNSTON, PAUL DENNITHORNE. "GENDER-FREE" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 57.2 June 22 2000: 160
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| 25. | "... related to peace,
tranquillity, happiness, and our ability to pursue individual, as well as
collective, achievement. [respondent's emphasis]
Respecting the welfare of others is a great patriotic act."
| Source: | Brewer, Gene A.,Selden, Sally Coleman,Facer, Rex L. II. "Individual Conceptions of Public Service Motivation" Public Administration Review 60.3 May 1 2000: 254
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