Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Utility: Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs

Brief Description: A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes, and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny, this book is an updating of Samuel Johnson's famous lines: "How small of all that human hearts endure. That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned. Our own felicity we make or find."Review Quotes:"We now have a new study of an altogether superior kind by a father and son team of philosopher and economist... To make progress the authors break up happiness into three components: welfare, contentment and dignity... The most striking of the Kenny findings is how little welfare has to do with income either absolute or relative."--Samuel Brittan "Financial Times "Review Quotes:"While clearly written, it is pretty advanced in the technicality of its arguments. I would recommend it for a third-year course on ethics or practical theology... [L]eaves one with much to think about."--Revd Dr Sedgwick "Church Times "Review Quotes:"It is a great intellectual pleasure... witty, profound but well understandable, the reader feels the moral and political commitment of the authors."--Helge Peukert "Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 41, no. 3 "Brief Description: A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny.

Contributor Bio:  Kenny, Anthony Sir Anthony Kenny was until recently Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the University. The author of a number of books, including an autobiography The Path from Rome, he was formerly a Roman Catholic priest. Contributor Bio:  Kenny, Charles Sir Anthony Kenny was formerly Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and is currently president of the British Academy. His many books include Medieval Philosophy, A Brief History of Western Philosophy, The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy and Wittgenstein