Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life, Swiss jurist and public thinker Carl Hilty offers a clear-eyed, compassionate exploration of what it means to live well when comfort, ambition, and certainty all fall short. Written as a sequence of short essays rather than a single argument, the book moves through the practical and the profound: work and vocation, character and self-mastery, friendship and society, suffering and resilience, and the quiet inner life where purpose is tested. Hilty speaks to the listener as a fellow traveler, challenging the popular idea that happiness is mainly a feeling to be chased. Instead, he insists it is a steadier outcome of how a person chooses to think, serve, and endure. Drawing on moral philosophy and a broadly Christian spiritual outlook, Hilty asks what habits make a life coherent, how to face disappointment without shrinking, and why meaning is often found through responsibility rather than escape. The result is an intimate handbook of reflection: firm but humane, idealistic but grounded, and aimed at anyone who wants a deeper definition of happiness than pleasure or success can provide.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:11:13) Chapter 01

(00:37:45) Chapter 02

(01:01:34) Chapter 03

(01:20:05) Chapter 04

(01:33:22) Chapter 05

(02:05:39) Chapter 06

(02:45:05) Chapter 07

(03:20:49) Chapter 08

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