A history of the philosophy of happiness (Patreon)

A history of the philosophy of happiness

Every purchase of a NordVPN 2 year plan will receive 4 additional bonus months! Visit https://nordvpn.com/lindybeige to learn more. Philosophers have suggested various ways to live, and attitudes to hold, in order to maximise happiness. Here I go though what many of them have said over the years in the western world, starting with Socrates. I probably should not have written the notes with the dates of all the people I planned to talk about - I used few of the dates, and ended up being distracted by them. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Buy the music - the music played at the end of my videos is now available here: https://lindybeige.bandcamp.com/track/the-mandeville-march Buy tat (merch): https://www.bonfire.com/results/Lindybeige/ Socrates image by Sting, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96296061 Plato image by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7831217 Aristotle image by After Lysippos - Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1359807 Epicurus image by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1447258 Zeno of Citium image by the Fondo Paolo Monti, owned by BEIC and located in the Civico Archivio Fotografico of Milan., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48067347 Stoa of Attalos image by Lloyd (AKA Lindybeige) Cicero image by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53959809 Epictetus image by William Sonmans - https://archive.org/details/epictetienchirid00epic, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9071933 Marcus Aurelius image by Daniel Martin - Photothèque du musée Saint-Raymond, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97131451 Saint Augustine image by Philippe de Champaigne - Los Angeles County Museum of Art: online database: entry 171584, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8481227 Thomas Aquinus image by Carlo Crivelli - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/carlo-crivelli-saint-thomas-aquinas, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=528367 Martin Luther image by Lucas Cranach the Elder - GalleriX, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23260036 John Locke image by Godfrey Kneller - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35691670 Jeremy Bentham image by Henry William Pickersgill (died 1875) - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6584649 John Stuart Mill image by George Frederic Watts - National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35906964 Jean Jaques Rousseau image by Maurice Quentin de La Tour - Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24158 Goethe image by Joseph Karl Stieler - Transferred from nds.wikipedia to Commons..org by G.Meiners at 12:05, 15. Okt 2005., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=375657 Imanuel Kant image by Unknown, possibly Elisabeth von Stägemann (Anton Graff school) - original from the Norwegian Digital Learning Arena (NDLA) https://ndla.no/image/43900, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139262788 Derren Brown image by Andrew West David Strauss image by Die Gartenlaube, Nr. 4 /1908, S. 83 (Rudolf Krauß: David Friedrich Strauß / Zu seinem hundertsten Geburtstage), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29359541 Karl Marx image by John Jabez Edwin Mayal - International Institute of Social History, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=591288 Nietzche image by Friedrich Hermann Hartmann - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/10/0b/04100baec90c105729b47f33c371476b.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95970 Sigmund Freud image by Max Halberstadt - https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6116407, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64082854 Phineus Parkhearst Quimby image courtesy of George A. Quimby, Quimby's son - Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, Doubleday, 1909, between pages 48 and 49., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31891380 Daniel Kahneman image by nrkbeta - IMG_4330, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104292544 ▼ Follow me... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lindybeige I may have some drivel to contribute to the Twittersphere, plus you get notice of uploads. Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Lindybeige My website: http://www.LloydianAspects.co.uk Channel page: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lindybeige