Books about philosophy of happiness

[VCrane]

Hey! First post...

I would like to read some serious HC philosophy about happiness. Not any modern self-help guides, but some serious shit. I was mostly thinking about classic Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus etc. but anything else including Asian stuff etc. is totally fine too - as long as it truly tackles the most profound questions of happiness. For example, The Republic does that quite much even though it's not directly about happiness.

So suggest any definitive philosophical books about happiness! What is it, how to achieve it, how does it relate to contentment and so on.

Thank you.

[Typist]

Hey! First post...

Welcome!

I would like to read some serious HC philosophy about happiness.

Just to clarify, is your goal to read about happiness, or be happy?

For the record, I have doubts that hard core philosophy writers would be experts on happiness, though they might indeed be experts at writing about happiness.

Here's an example. I'm clever with words, whereas my wife is wise. I could write 14 books about wisdom in the time my wife could write the first paragraph. No kidding, literal truth. But my wife is the one who is actually wise, whereas I'm just handy with words.

If you had to choose between me and my wife, which of us would interest you more?

[VCrane]

Hey :)

I'm simply interested in views of happiness. For sure I want to be happy like anyone, but I'm not looking for happiness through these books. I'm simply interested. So I don't want books written by happy people; just gimme that philosophy ;)