This innovative volume argues that flourishing is achieved when
individuals successfully balance their responsiveness to three
kinds of normative claim: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility,
and intersubjective answerability. Applying underutilised resources
in existential phenomenology, Irene McMullin reconceives practical
reason, addresses traditional problems in virtue ethics, and
analyses four virtues: justice, patience, modesty, and courage. Her
central argument is that there is an irreducible normative
plurality arising from the different practical perspectives we can
adopt - the first-, second-, and third-person stances - which each
present us with different kinds of normative claim. Flourishing is
human excellence within each of these normative domains, achieved
in such a way that success in one does not compromise success in
another. The individual virtues are solutions to specific
existential challenges we face in attempting to do so. This book
will be important for anyone working in the fields of moral theory,
existential phenomenology, and virtue ethics.
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