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The morality of happiness /
Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics - and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Basic Ideas
- 1. Making Sense of My Life as a Whole
- 2. The Virtues
- 1. Having the Virtues
- 2. The Affective Aspect of Virtue
- 3. The Intellectual Aspect of Virtue
- 4. The Structure of Moral Reasoning: Rules and Insight
- 5. Virtue and Right Action
- 6. Ordinary and Extraordinary Virtue
- 7. Virtue and Morality
- II. Justification and the Appeal to Nature
- 3. Nature and Naturalism
- 4. Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature
- 5. The Stoics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe6. Antiochus: The Intuitive View
- 7. The Epicureans: Rethinking What Is Natural
- 8. The Sceptics: Accepting What Is Natural
- 1. Pyrrho
- 2. The Sceptical Academy
- 3. Later Pyrrhonists: Sextus
- 9. Uses of Nature
- III. The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others
- 10. The Good of Others
- 11. Finding Room for Other-Concern
- 1. The Cyrenaics
- 2. Epicurus
- 3. The Sceptics
- 12. Self-Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other-Concern
- 1. Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Love
- 2. The Stoics on Other-Concern and Impartiality3. The Aristotelian Response
- 4. The Debate
- 13. Justice
- 1. Justice: A Virtue of Character and a Virtue of Institutions
- 2. Epicurus on Justice
- 3. The Stoics: Natural Law and the Depoliticized Outlook
- 4. Aristotelian Theories
- 5. Conclusion
- 14. Self-Interest and Morality
- IV. Revising Your Priorities
- 15. Happiness, Success and What Matters
- 16. Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time
- 17. The Sceptics: Untroubledness without Belief
- 18. Aristotle: An Unstable View
- 19. Theophrastus and the Stoics: Forcing the Issue1. Theophrastus
- 2. The Stoics
- 20. Aristotelian Responses
- 1. Aristotle's School
- 2. Arius Didymus' Account of Aristotelian Ethics
- 3. Antiochus
- 21. Happiness and the Demands of Virtue
- V. Conclusion
- 22. Morality, Ancient and Modern
- 1. The Shape of Ancient Ethical Theory
- 2. The Tasks of Ethical Theory
- 3. Structural Contrasts
- 4. Ancient Ethics and Modern Morality
- Cast of Characters
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index Locorum
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- General Index
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