Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy And Psychology Of Living Well (Routledge Studies In Ethics And Moral Theory)

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." This original contribution to contemporary ethics and moral psychology puts forward a provocative hypothesis of what an empirically-based moral theory would look like. 9780415728164 0415728169 0 BOOK Philosophy NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RmNgngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Lorraine L. Besser
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 14, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 196 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415728169
• | ISBN-13: 9780415728164