Reviews for Happiness: Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Biology, Eudaimonia, Virtue ethics, Happiness e...

The average rating for Happiness: Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Biology, Eudaimonia, Virtue ethics, Happiness e... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-05 00:00:00 Paul L. Boyko The first half I found kind of lackluster, but the second half was more interesting. Plenty of war talk creeps in and talk about soldiers being "born for" their kind of work...which I think is meant to just convey someone's strong sense of duty, courage, etc., but there's also plenty of mention of cannons booming and planes being shot down, which I personally don't like to have center stage in a novel. Not that it was center stage most of the time. Just on occasion. The story starts out with 16-year-old Peggy, whose older half-sister Diana is a selfish flirt. Diana gains the affection of the only man Peggy has ever admired, an aviator/soldier named Eagle March, but then throws him away when a wealthier suitor proposes (and, to ensure that Diana accepts him, this other guy totally and cold-bloodedly wrecks Eagle's reputation and career). It's thought that he will never hold up his head again, and Peggy's sister, father, and everyone else couldn't care less. Only Peggy is desperate to keep in touch with him and express her total confidence that he's exactly as good as she always thought. A couple of years have gone by, during which no one except Peggy even cares what has happened to Eagle. Peggy is traveling with some friends in Belgium when World War I breaks out. She decides to stay and help as a nurse. How she finds Eagle again, what has happened to him in the meantime, whether he cares for her as more than a "little sister," which is what he calls her at the beginning of their acquaintance, and whether or not they get justice after his public disgrace make up the rest of the story.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-14 00:00:00 Janice Casey Great wartime story, mostly focusing on side issues rather than fighting: dysfunctional family, wartime sacrifices and sham sacrifices, a dastardly deed done to a soldier to gain an advantage in love, and a young woman trying to uncover the stolen honor of her secret love and wreak revenge on the perpetrator. Clean with an honorable message.