Turner, BryanY. Contreras-VejarJ. JenB. Turner2025-10-162019978178308885010.2307/j.ctvdjrnx3https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14802/9521Happiness as the ultimate goal of human endeavour is a thread running through theology and philosophy from the ancient Greeks to modern times. Such a claim raises immediately a host of critical objections and problems relating to the idea of cultural relativism. Can the theme of happiness be continuous and how would we know that? One way to overcome this dilemma is to identify ‘regimes of happiness’ – that is, clusters of ideas, practices and institutions that in one way or another connect to broad ideas of human wellbeing, flourishing and satisfaction or Eudaimonia to use the word that dominates...philosophyweberfreudnietzscheBook chapterControlledPUB0201057553