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Well-Being - Happiness in a Worthwhile Life (Hardcover)
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Well-Being - Happiness in a Worthwhile Life (Hardcover)
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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.
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