Can virtue make us happy?
Subtitle: the art of living and morality
By: Otfried Höffe ; translated from the German by Douglas R. McGaughey ; translation edited by Aaron Bunch.
Contributors: McGaughey, Douglas R., 1947-; Bunch, Aaron.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810125452
Subjects: Ethics; Hedonism; Autonomy (Philosophy)
Work titles: Lebenskunst und Moral.
Notes: "Originally published in German by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2007."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethics plus theory of action; title: Thinking the good through; title: Fallacious conclusions; title: Animal morabile; title: Action; title: The principle of happiness: eudaimonia; title: The happiness of aspiration; title: The art of living; title: Four life goals; title: Virtue; title: Prudence, composure, selflessness; title: Wisdom rather than calculation; title: Does virtue make one happy?; title: Euthanasia of morals?; title: From an ethic of teleological aspiration to an ethic of the will; title: The principle of freedom: autonomy; title: Locating moral freedom; title: Practical reason: freedom of action; title: Autonomous reason: freedom of the will; title: Objection one: determinism; title: Objection two: brain research; title: The criterion; title: The universalizability test: two examples; title: Reality; title: Morally evil; title: Autonomous morality and the art of living; title: Does morality make one happy?.