MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01874nam a22003138a 4500
001 2009040431
003 DLC
005 20091005143232.0
008 090928s2010 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2009040431
020 $a9780810125452 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aIEN/DLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
082 04 $a170$222
050 00 $aBJ1114$b.H57513 2010
100 1 $aHöffe, Otfried.
240 10 $aLebenskunst und Moral.$lEnglish
245 10 $aCan virtue make us happy? :$bthe art of living and morality /$cOtfried Höffe ; translated from the German by Douglas R. McGaughey ; translation edited by Aaron Bunch.
260 $aEvanston, Ill. :$bNorthwestern University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
500 $a"Originally published in German by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2007."--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEthics plus theory of action -- Thinking the good through -- Fallacious conclusions -- Animal morabile -- Action -- The principle of happiness: eudaimonia -- The happiness of aspiration -- The art of living -- Four life goals -- Virtue -- Prudence, composure, selflessness -- Wisdom rather than calculation -- Does virtue make one happy? -- Euthanasia of morals? -- From an ethic of teleological aspiration to an ethic of the will -- The principle of freedom: autonomy -- Locating moral freedom -- Practical reason: freedom of action -- Autonomous reason: freedom of the will -- Objection one: determinism -- Objection two: brain research -- The criterion -- The universalizability test: two examples -- Reality -- Morally evil -- Autonomous morality and the art of living -- Does morality make one happy?.
650 0 $aEthics.
650 0 $aHedonism.
650 0 $aAutonomy (Philosophy)
700 1 $aMcGaughey, Douglas R.,$d1947-
700 1 $aBunch, Aaron.