Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well

ISBN-13: 9781138731530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Lorraine L. Besser

Opis

In this book, Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature. While her project maintains the fundamental features of the eudaimonistic virtue ethical framework—virtue, character, and well-being—she constructs these concepts from an empirical basis, drawing support from the psychological fields of self-determination and self-regulation theory. Besser-Jones’s resulting account of "eudaimonic ethics" presents a compelling normative theory and offers insight into what is involved in being a virtuous person and "acting well."

Spis treści

1. Moderate Psychological Realism  2. Innate Psychological Needs  3. Sociability  4. Autonomy, Identification, and Morality  5. A Complex Account of Character  6. An Instrumental Theory of Virtue  7. Practical Reason, Goal Pursuit, and Acting Well  8. Value Fulfillment  9. Acting Well  10. Virtuous Agency

O autorze

Lorraine Besser-Jones is an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Middlebury College. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics (2014) and the author of many articles on moral psychology that have appeared in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Psychology, and Journal of Moral Philosophy.