ARISTOTLE ON HAPPINESS: A COMPARISON WITH CONFUCIUS A In Fulfillment

ARISTOTLE ON HAPPINESS: A COMPARISON WITH CONFUCIUS

A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School University of Missouri ? Columbia

In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree

Doctor of Philosophy

by LILY CHANG

Dr. Bina Gupta, Dissertation Supervisor AUGUST 2006

? Copyright by Lily Chang 2006 All Rights Reserved

This dissertation is dedicated to my husband, Troy M. Nunley, and to our child in utero.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank everyone without which the writing of my dissertation would not be possible. Troy, my beloved husband and best friend, thanks for putting up with me for a year and nearly eleven months of trudging through research, writing, thinking through various ideas, more writing, complaining, and wondering whether this would ever be finished. Your moral support has meant so much to me. Christine Poston, my best friend, thanks for your prayers and your continued and unfailing support. That you believed in my abilities throughout this journey, at times, was one of the few things that kept me together. My family -- my dad and mom, Tenny, Troy's mom and dad, Aaron, Jenny, and Becky -- thank you for believing that I had the intellectual ability to write a good dissertation and that finishing my Ph.D. was only a matter of time. Thank you to our small group from church, the Crossing, for faithfully praying for me throughout my writing process. Last but not least, thank you Dr. Bina Gupta for mentoring me through the writing of my dissertation, and thank you committee members -- Dr. Jack Kultgen, Dr. Bill Bondeson, Dr. Joe Bien, and Dr. Barbara Wallach -- for discussing my dissertation with me and providing me with helpful insight. To everyone else that I have forgotten to name, thank you so much for your support through this writing process.

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