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| Introduction | |
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| Desire, Happiness, and Virtue | |
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| The Origin of Ethics | |
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| Desires and Impulses | |
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| Do People Have Nonrational Desires? | |
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| Two Objections | |
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| Desires, Impulses, and Good Things | |
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| Self-Interest and the Good | |
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| The Overriding Good | |
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| Plato and the Overriding Good | |
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| Aristotle and the Overriding Good | |
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| Summary of the Starting Point (the Arche) of Greek Virtue Ethics | |
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| Happiness | |
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| The Greatest Good Is Happiness | |
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| The Prephilosophical Notion of Happiness | |
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| The Prephilosophical Definitions of Happiness | |
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| Transforming the Prephilosophical Definitions of Happiness | |
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| The Philosophical Criteria for Happiness | |
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| Is There a Philosophical Definition of Happiness? | |
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| Character Virtue | |
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| Prephilosophical Ideas about Virtue | |
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| Philosophical Conception of Virtue | |
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| Three Important Distinctions in Virtue Ethics | |
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| Nature of the Authentic Character Virtues | |
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| The Number of Character Virtues | |
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| Pride, the Forgotten Character Virtue | |
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| The Unity of Virtue | |
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| Prudence and Character Virtue | |
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| Prudence in Socrates and Plato | |
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| Wisdom and Prudence in the Socratic Dialogues | |
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| Xenophon's Account of Socrates' Deliberations | |
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| Prudence in the Republic | |
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| Prudence in the Philebus | |
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| Prudence in the Statesman | |
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| Prudence in the Laws | |
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| Prudence in Aristotle | |
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| Prudence in the Rhetoric | |
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| Prudence and Authentic Character Virtue | |
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| Prudence and Autonomy | |
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| Prudence and Prudent People (the phronimoi) | |
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| Prudence and Laws | |
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| Character Virtue without Prudence? | |
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| Prudence in Stoicism | |
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| Prudence and Stoic Determinism | |
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| Prudence as a Skill | |
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| Prudence and the Right Disposition (diathesis) | |
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| Prudence in Panaetius | |
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| The Stoic Sage (sophos) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Greek Virtue Ethicists | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |