Can Virtue Make Us Happy?: The Art of Living and Morality
Northwestern University Press (2010)
| Abstract | Ethics plus theory of action -- Thinking the good through -- Fallacious conclusions -- Animal morabile -- Action -- The principle of happiness: eudaimonia -- The happiness of aspiration -- The art of living -- Four life goals -- Virtue -- Prudence, composure, selflessness -- Wisdom rather than calculation -- Does virtue make one happy? -- Euthanasia of morals? -- From an ethic of teleological aspiration to an ethic of the will -- The principle of freedom: autonomy -- Locating moral freedom -- Practical reason: freedom of action -- Autonomous reason: freedom of the will -- Objection one: determinism -- Objection two: brain research -- The criterion -- The universalizability test: two examples -- Reality -- Morally evil -- Autonomous morality and the art of living -- Does morality make one happy?. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Ethics Hedonism Autonomy (Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ1114.H57513 2010 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780810125452 0810125455 | |||||||||
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