The Science of Happiness is the best known book by Jean Finot, French author, journalist and sociologist and philosopher, who wrote at the beginning of the XX century.
Finot was a positive writer who believed happiness was achievable; and he criticized other fellow philosophers for their pessimism, that was causing a lot of harm to society.
In his very serious, but also very uplifting book, a "treatise" on happiness, he analyzed the following subjects:
I. A SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS. IS SUCH A THING A POSSIBILITY?
II. HAPPINESS IS WITHIN US
III. OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM
IV. AMONG THE UNFORTUNATE
V. HAPPINESS FOR ALL
VI. A FEW CATECHISMS OF HAPPINESS
VII. THE MORALITY OF HAPPINESS
VIII. WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
Finot was a positive writer who believed happiness was achievable; and he criticized other fellow philosophers for their pessimism, that was causing a lot of harm to society.
In his very serious, but also very uplifting book, a "treatise" on happiness, he analyzed the following subjects:
I. A SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS. IS SUCH A THING A POSSIBILITY?
II. HAPPINESS IS WITHIN US
III. OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM
IV. AMONG THE UNFORTUNATE
V. HAPPINESS FOR ALL
VI. A FEW CATECHISMS OF HAPPINESS
VII. THE MORALITY OF HAPPINESS
VIII. WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
