The morality of happiness / / Julia Annas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821097503321
• Autore: Annas Julia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1993
• ISBN: 1-281-98892-8; 9786611988920; 0-19-802416-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 502 pages)
• Disciplina: 170/.938
• Soggetti: Ethics, Ancient; Happiness
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Basic Ideas -- 1. Making Sense of My Life as a Whole -- 2. The Virtues -- 1. Having the Virtues -- 2. The Affective Aspect of Virtue -- 3. The Intellectual Aspect of Virtue -- 4. The Structure of Moral Reasoning: Rules and Insight -- 5. Virtue and Right Action -- 6. Ordinary and Extraordinary Virtue -- 7. Virtue and Morality -- II. Justification and the Appeal to Nature -- 3. Nature and Naturalism -- 4. Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature -- 5. The Stoics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe -- 6. Antiochus: The Intuitive View -- 7. The Epicureans: Rethinking What Is Natural -- 8. The Sceptics: Accepting What Is Natural -- 1. Pyrrho -- 2. The Sceptical Academy -- 3. Later Pyrrhonists: Sextus -- 9. Uses of Nature -- III. The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others -- 10. The Good of Others -- 11. Finding Room for Other-Concern -- 1. The Cyrenaics -- 2. Epicurus -- 3. The Sceptics -- 12. Self-Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other-Concern -- 1. Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Love -- 2. The Stoics on Other-Concern and Impartiality -- 3. The Aristotelian Response -- 4. The Debate -- 13. Justice -- 1. Justice: A Virtue of Character and a Virtue of Institutions -- 2. Epicurus on Justice -- 3. The Stoics: Natural Law and the Depoliticized Outlook -- 4. Aristotelian Theories -- 5. Conclusion -- 14. Self-Interest and Morality -- IV. Revising Your Priorities -- 15. Happiness, Success and What ; Matters -- 16. Epicurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time -- 17. The Sceptics: Untroubledness without Belief -- 18. Aristotle: An Unstable View -- 19. Theophrastus and the Stoics: Forcing the Issue -- 1. Theophrastus -- 2. The Stoics -- 20. Aristotelian Responses -- 1. Aristotle's School -- 2. Arius Didymus' Account of Aristotelian Ethics -- 3. Antiochus -- 21. Happiness and the Demands of Virtue -- V. Conclusion.; 22. Morality, Ancient and Modern -- 1. The Shape of Ancient Ethical Theory -- 2. The Tasks of Ethical Theory -- 3. Structural Contrasts -- 4. Ancient Ethics and Modern Morality -- Cast of Characters -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index Locorum -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- V -- X -- General Index.