Well-being : happiness in a worthwhile life

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Well-being : happiness in a worthwhile life

Neera K. Badhwar

(Oxford paperbacks)

Oxford University Press, 2017, c2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book offers a new argument for the ancient claim that well-being as the highest prudential good - eudaimonia -consists of happiness in a virtuous life. The argument takes into account recent work on happiness, well-being, and virtue, and defends a neo-Aristotelian conception of virtue as an integrated intellectual-emotional disposition that is limited in both scope and stability. This conception of virtue is argued to be widely held and compatible with social and cognitive psychology. The main argument of the book is as follows: (i) the concept of well-being as the highest prudential good is internally coherent and widely held; (ii) well-being thus conceived requires an objectively worthwhile life; (iii) in turn, such a life requires autonomy and reality-orientation, i.e., a disposition to think for oneself, seek truth or understanding about important aspects of one's own life and human life in general, and act on this understanding when circumstances permit; (iv) to the extent that someone is successful in achieving understanding and acting on it, she is realistic, and to the extent that she is realistic, she is virtuous; (v) hence, well-being as the highest prudential good requires virtue. But complete virtue is impossible for both psychological and epistemic reasons, and this is one reason why complete well-being is impossible.

目次

Acknowledgments Part I: Well-Being Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Well-Being as the Highest Prudential Good Chapter 3: Well-Being: From Subjectivity to Objectivity Part II: Autonomy, Realism, and Virtue Chapter 4: Autonomy and Reality-Orientation Chapter 5: Is Realism Really Bad for You? A Realistic Response Chapter 6: Virtue Part III: Well-Being and Virtue Chapter 7: Happy Villains and Stoic Sages, External Goods and the Primacy of Virtue Chapter 8: Taking Stock Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB24375188
  • ISBN
    • 9780190682071
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 245 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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