The Good Life and the Human Good
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- Date Published: October 1993
- availability: Unavailable - out of print July 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521437592
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What is the good life? This question captured the attention of ancient philosophers and it remains with us today, because it compels us to consider what it is to be human. To inquire about the good life is to ask, not about the proper conduct in one specific situation, but about the proper course of an entire life. It is to ask what we ought to make of ourselves as moral beings, what standards we ought to follow, and what goals we ought to aspire to. But does it make sense to talk about the good life or the human good, or are there many human goods and many ways of living a good life? If there are many goods, then ow are they related, and how are we to determine whether one good outweighs another? Does living one's own life well leave room for concern for the well-being of others? Are there other non-moral concerns that may sometimes take precedence over living a good life? These are a few of the questions that will be addressed by the essays in this issue.
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- Date Published: October 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521437592
- length: 229 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.316kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print July 1996
Table of Contents
The good life and the good lives of others
Good lives: Prolegomena
The human good and the ambitions of consequentialism
Virtue as loving the good
The limits of well-being
On there being some limits to morality
Moral theory and legal thought
Rationality and the human good
The advantages of ethical diversity
Two theories of the good
On some ways in which a thing can be good.
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