10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EUDAIMONISM»
Discover the use of
eudaimonism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
eudaimonism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cambridge Companion to Socrates
The Principle of Psychological Eudaimonism is a descriptive thesis; it purports to
tell us how all human beings do, in fact, act. Stronger versions of rational and
psychological eudaimonism hold that happiness is the only rational (or ...
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Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: ...
Lisa Tessman Abstract This chapter considers whether eudaimonism is
necessarily an idealizing approach to ethics. I argue, contrary to what is implied
by Christine Swanton, that it is not, and I suggest that a non-ideal eudaimonistic
virtue ...
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Self-Interest: Volume 14
EUDAIMONISM Is being moral worth the price? It depends on what being moral
is like, and there are different theories about that. Eudaimonism is one such
theory, and this section considers the extent to which a eudaimonist interpretation
of ...
Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul, 1997
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What Is This Thing Called Happiness?
In any case, let us use the term 'Stevensonian Eudaimonism' to indicate the view
that welfare tracks happiness—but only when combined with the attempt to
substitute some new and controversial cognitive meaning for the garden variety ...
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Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck
Kant. versus. Eudaimonism. Allen. W. Wood. Kant was among the first to break
decisively with the eudaimonistic tradition of classical ethics by declaring that the
moral principle is entirely distinct and divergent from the principle of happiness ...
Lewis White Beck, Predrag Cicovacki, 2001
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Augustine's City of God: A Critical Guide
Niehohzs Wolterstoryf Augustine's ethical thought in his late writings is commonly
interpreted as a creative version of eudaimonism. To cite just one recent example
: Martha Nussbaum, in Upheavals of Thought, says that Augustine developed ...
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Handbook of Administrative Ethics
64-65). To illustrate this trend toward simplification, I shall present my
interpretation. I have reduced the cardinal virtues to two: eudaimonism and
benevolence. They have been chosen, first, because they add a needed content
and, second, ...
Stoic. eudaimonism*. The history of ethics has moved on by some two thousand
years since Stoicism began to make its mark on the Roman Empire. If, in the light
of that history, we ask what kind of an ethical theory the Stoics advance, ...
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Democracy and Moral Development
In sum, connection between eudaimonism and elitism is historical and contingent
, not logical and necessary. Next, eudaimonism is not a form of egoism. It posits
as the native motivation of persons the desire (Eros) to live a worthy life.
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Justice: Rights and Wrongs
DOES EUDAIMONISM HAVE ROOM FOR COMPASSION? On my interpretation,
one of the indications that Christ's injunction led Augustine to break with
eudaimonism, rather than try to incorporate love of the other within eudaimonism,
is the ...
Nicholas Wolterstorff, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EUDAIMONISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
eudaimonism is used in the context of the following news items.
Another Would-Be Critic of Libertarianism Takes on a Straw Man
To conflate methodological and ethical individualism (specifically, eudaimonism) with atomistic individualism is to confess an unfamiliarity with ... «Reason, Mar 15»
2013 study on happiness and gene expression flawed, new …
... reliant on self-reporting and not originally designed to measure eudaimonism or hedonism, and one biological sample, taken one time only, ... «Medical Xpress, Aug 14»
The Principle of Cooperation
Jackson distinguishes eudaimonism (the belief that all human actions aim at happiness) from agapism (the belief that morality is concerned ... «Metapsychology, Mar 14»
Anti-Christian violence in the Middle East: the answer is more …
To the extent that there is common ground here, it is better construed as a form of virtue ethics rooted in eudaimonism, and it was precisely that ... «Catholic Herald Online, Dec 13»
Values-free democracy is just another form of tyranny
Second, that the sort of Thomist/Aristotelian eudaimonism on which Catholicism's tradition of natural law rests is clearly wrong, and can be ... «Catholic Herald Online, Dec 13»
Libertarian Moral Standards Apply to Everybody
Rather, I am comfortable with the Greek approach to morality, eudaimonism, which, as Roderick Long writes, “means that virtues like prudence ... «Reason, Nov 13»
How Hedonism Harms Us
“The terms hedonism and eudaimonism bring to mind the great philosophical debate, which has shaped Western civilization for over 2,000 ... «Patheos, Aug 13»
Food : Sex :: Pornography : Tobacco—Is Analogy Enough?
A Kantian morality eschews any teleology as being base eudaimonism, so Eberstadt likewise remains silent regarding any ends of human ... «First Things, Jul 12»
UN Report: Happiness Is...World Socialism
Their only discernible reason for citing Aristotle's eudaimonism is to contrast the alleged ideas of "the sages" (the Buddha is also cited ... «American Thinker, Apr 12»
Eudaimonism is False
Eudaimonism is False ... way: an interesting version of eudaimonism that includes a not-overly consequence-insensitive version of the self-ownership thesis. «Big Think, Feb 12»
