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Can virtue make us happy? : the art of living and morality
Lebenskunst und Moral. English
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- Creator
- Otfried Höffe ; translated from the German by Douglas R. McGaughey ; translation edited by Aaron Bunch
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- English
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- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010
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- 377 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810125452, 0810125455
- OCLC
- ocn318428701
- "Originally published in German by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2007."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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?