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"This book defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate answer: 'what is the good for human beings?'--'a well-going human life.' Ethics thus conc...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate answer: 'what is the good for human beings?'--'a well-going human life.' Ethics thus conceived is broader than moral philosophy. It includes a range of topics in psychology and metaphysics. Plato's Philebus is the ancestor of this approach. Its first premise, defended in Book I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, is that the final agential good is the good human life. Though Aristotle introduces this premise w |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 219 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index. |
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9780190692476 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0190692472 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | BJ1012 |
| CLC: | B82 |
| Call Number: | B82/V886 |
| Contents: | A blueprint for ethics -- The good and the good human life -- Disagreement, value, measure -- The long goodbye from relativism -- The guide of the good -- The nature of pursuits -- The metaphysics of the sphere of action -- Concluding remarks. |