Irene McMullin

Existential Flourishing

A Phenomenology of the Virtues

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that 'flourishing' means balancing one's responsiveness to three normative claims: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471664
• ISBN-10: 1108471668
• Artikelnr.: 53170747

Autorenporträt

Irene McMullin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex. She is the author of Time and the Shared World (2013) as well as of numerous articles in journals including Philosophical Review, European Journal of Philosophy, Kantian Review, and Philosophical Topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. What is flourishing?
2. Three domains of reason
3. Justice, the virtues, and existential problem-solving
4. Unity, comparison, constraint
5. Called to be oneself: role models and the project of becoming virtuous
6. Corrupting the youth
7. Patience
8. Modesty
9. Courage
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.