Desiring the good : ancient proposals and contemporary theory /

• Main Author: Vogt, Katja Maria, 1968- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2017.
• Subjects: Ηθική; Τρόπος ζωής > Ηθικές απόψεις.

Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate answer: "what is the good for human beings?"--"a well-going human life." Ethics thus co...

Table of Contents:

• A blueprint for ethics
• The good and the good human life
• Disagreement, value, measure
• The long goodbye from relativism
• The guise of the good
• The nature of pursuits
• The metaphysics of the sphere of action.