{"product_id":"9781586179564","title":"Finding True Happiness: Satisfying Our Restless Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the hottest topics in contemporary culture is happiness. The explanation for this current fixation seems to lie in the contrary phenomenon—unhappiness. Despite the fact that we have tremendous access to every imaginable form of entertainment, we experience a pervading sense of insecurity, emptiness, and malaise amid sporadic peak experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinding True Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to provide a way out of this personal and cultural vacuum by helping people to identify and then reach for happiness. As Aristotle noted 2,400 years ago, happiness is the one thing we can choose for its own sake—everything else is chosen for the sake of happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter an exhaustive investigation of philosophical, psychological, and theological systems of happiness, Fr. Spitzer developed the Four Levels of Happiness, which he based on the classical thinkers Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas; the contemporary philosophers Marcel, Scheler, Buber, Ricoeur, and Jaspers; and the modern psychologists Maslow, Frankl, Erikson, Seligman, Kohlberg, and Gilligan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinding True Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e is both a philosophical itinerary and a practical guidebook for life’s most important journey—from the mundane and the meaningless to transcendent fulfillment. No other book currently available combines such breadth of practical advice and such depth of philosophical, psychological, and spiritual wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ignatius Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036638757104,"sku":"9781586179564","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781586179564_p0.jpg?v=1763789696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781586179564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}