Assuming responsibility: ecstatic eudaimonism and the call to live well
Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life. But the critique launched by Kant - that eudaimonism is egoistic and distorts the character of duty or obligation - has persisted. Should I develop the virtues because thes...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in theological ethics
Oxford scholarship online |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Moral responsibility
/ Eudemonism
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| Further subjects: | B
Happiness
B Virtue B Religious Ethics |
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| Summary: | Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life. But the critique launched by Kant - that eudaimonism is egoistic and distorts the character of duty or obligation - has persisted. Should I develop the virtues because these are the traits I need in order to flourish? Is it facts about my own happiness that determine my obligations to others? In this book, Jennifer Herdt deftly sifts through these debates, showing why we should embrace 'ecstatic' or 'goodness-prior' eudaimonism while rejecting 'welfare-prior' forms of eudaimonism. Grasping the character of ecstatic eudaimonism, she argues, has major implications, overcoming the common assumption of a sharp break between pagan and Christian eudaimonism, as well as of a late medieval or Protestant repudiation of eudaimonism in favor of divine command theory. |
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| Item Description: | This edition also issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 1, 2022) |
| ISBN: | 0191944459 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192849205.001.0001 |