Download or read book Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life written by Jonathan Lear and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. Lear now scrutinizes these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle and finds that their theories fall apart.