Can virtue make us happy? : the art of living and morality / Otfried Höffe ; translated from the German by Douglas R. McGaughey ; translation edited by Aaron Bunch.
By: Höffe, Otfried
Contributor(s): McGaughey, Douglas R | Bunch, Aaron
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010Description: 377 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780810125452 (cloth : alk. paper)Uniform titles: Lebenskunst und Moral. English Subject(s): Ethics
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"Originally published in German by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2007."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-363) and index.
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 -- Can virtue make us 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 -- Can morality make us happy?.
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