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Intelligent Virtue

By Julia Annas

Intelligent Virtue

By Julia Annas

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Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. Annas argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of a kind which can illuminatingly be compared to the kind of reasoning we find in someone exercising a practical skill. Rather than asking at the start how virtues relate to rules, principles, maximizing, or a final end, we should look at the way in which the acquisition and exercise of virtue can be seen to be in many ways like the acquisition and exercise of more mundane activities, such as farming, building or playing the piano. This helps us to see virtue as part of an agent's happiness or flourishing, and as constituting (wholly, or in part) that happiness. We are offered a better understanding of the relation between virtue as an ideal and virtue in everyday life, and the relation between being virtuous and doing the right thing.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2011-05-26
Publication Date:
2011-04-28
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199228787
ISBN13:
9780199228782
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
390 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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