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The Value of Living Well (Hardcover, New)
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Since the middle of the twentieth century, virtue ethics has
enriched the range of philosophical approaches to normative ethics,
often drawing on the work of the ancient Greeks, who offered
accounts of the virtues that have become part of contemporary
philosophical ethics. But these virtue ethical theories were
situated within a more general picture of human practical
rationality, one which maintained that to understand virtue we must
appeal to what would make our lives go well. This feature of
ethical theorizing has not become part of philosophical ethics,
although the virtue theories dependent upon it have. This book is
an attempt to bring eudaimonism into dialogue with contemporary
philosophical work in ethical theory. It does not attempt to
replicate the many contributions to normative ethics, in particular
to thinking about the virtues. Instead, it attempts to contribute
to metatethics - to thinking about what we are doing when we think
about normative ethics. In particular, it attempts to contribute to
contemporary philosophical debate on the nature of what is good for
us, on what we have most reason to do, on what facts about both
those ideas consist in, on the nature of values and value facts,
and the nature of the reasons for respect for others we might have.
Its aim is to mark off space in these debates where a way of
thinking about ourselves and our agential, practical, natures as
the ancients did can enrich our thinking about those deep and
important questions. In this way the book makes a case for what we
might call Virtue Eudaimonism.
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