Well-being: happiness in a worthwhile life

In this work, Neera K. Badhwar offers a new argument for the ancient claim that well-being as the highest prudential good - eudaimonia - consists of happiness in a virtuous life. Virtue is a source of happiness, but happiness also requires external goods. The argument takes into account recent work...

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Main Author: Badhwar, Neera Kapur (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:DE-29
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Summary:In this work, Neera K. Badhwar offers a new argument for the ancient claim that well-being as the highest prudential good - eudaimonia - consists of happiness in a virtuous life. Virtue is a source of happiness, but happiness also requires external goods. The argument takes into account recent work on happiness, well-being, and virtue, and defends a neo-Aristotelian conception of virtue as an integrated, but limited, intellectual-emotional-action disposition
ISBN:9780199382996
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323276.001.0001

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