Intelligent Virtue

Name: Intelligent Virtue
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ISBN: 9780199228775

ISBN-10: 0199228779

ISBN-13: 9780199228775

Edition: 2011

Authors: Julia Annas

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Intelligent Virtuepresents 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 4/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English