The Morality of Happiness

by Annas, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780195096521
• ISBN10: 0195096525
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

'A richly nuanced and exceptionally clear historical study... that will redefine current debates about 'virtue-ethics' and its differences from moral theory.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. 3
The Basic Ideas	p. 25
Making Sense of My Life as a Whole	p. 27
The Virtues	p. 47
Justification and the Appeal to Nature	p. 133
Nature and Naturalism	p. 135
Aristole: Nature and Mere Nature	p. 142
The Stoics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe	p. 159
Antiochus: the Intuitive View	p. 180
The Epicureans: Rethinking What is Natural	p. 188
The Sceptics: Accepting What is Natural	p. 201
Uses of Nature	p. 214
The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others	p. 221
The Good of Others	p. 223
Finding Room for Other-Concern	p. 227
Self-Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other-Concern	p. 249
Justice	p. 291
Self-Interest and Morality	p. 322
Revising Your Priorities	p. 327
Happiness, Success and What Matters	p. 329
Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time	p. 334
The Sceptics: Untroubledness Without Belief	p. 351
Aristotle: an Unstable View	p. 364
Theophrastus and the Stoics: Forcing the Issue	p. 385
Aristotelian Responses	p. 412
Happiness and the Demands of Virtue	p. 426
Conclusion	p. 437
Morality, Ancient and Modern	p. 439
Cast of Characters	p. 457
Primary Sources	p. 465
Secondary Sources	p. 469
Index Locorum	p. 484
General Index	p. 494
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