Well-being : happiness in a worthwhile life / Neera K. Badhwar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badhwar, Neera Kapur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Virtue.

Happiness.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

xi, 245 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

This Book 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 intellectual-emotional disposition that is limited in both scope and stability. These conceptions of well-being and virtue are argued to be widely-held and compatible with experimental psychology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Well-Being

Chapter 1 Introduction 3

Chapter 2 Well-Being as the Highest Prudential Good 29

Chapter 3 Well-Being: From Subjectivity to Objectivity 52

Part 2 Autonomy, Realism, and Virtue

Chapter 4 Autonomy and Reality-Orientation 83

Chapter 5 Is Realism Really Bad for You? A Realistic Response 118

Chapter 6 Virtue 143

Part 3 Well-Being and Virtue

Chapter 7 Happy Villains and Stoic Sages, External Goods and the Primacy of Virtue 183

Chapter 8 Conclusion: Taking Stock 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195323276

0195323270

OCLC:

868000103