{"product_id":"finding-true-happiness-satisfying-our-restless-hearts-9781586179564","title":"Finding True Happiness: Satisfying Our Restless Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the hottest topics in contemporary culture is happiness--so much so that the United Nations declared an International Happiness Day in response to the immense popularity of Pharrell Williams' song \"Happy\". 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\u003eThe problem seems to lie less in the external environment than in the internal one. We seem, in the words of Viktor Frankl, to be suffering from an absence of meaning that pervades both individuals and societies, giving rise to a collective emptiness, loneliness, and alienation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinding True Happiness\u003c\/i\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, author 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\u003ci\u003eFinding True Happiness\u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.\u003c\/b\u003e is the President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith and the Spitzer Center. He was the President of Gonzaga University from 1998 to 2009. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eHealing the Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinding True Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFive Pillars of the Spiritual Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Light Shines On in the Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Soul's Upward Yearning\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGod So Loved the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ignatius Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357192818962,"sku":"9781586179564","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a705151-7ae4-4894-b074-7e09ab8781eb.jpg?v=1728320329","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/finding-true-happiness-satisfying-our-restless-hearts-9781586179564","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}