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Intelligent virtue / Julia Annas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Annas, Julia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 189 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Julia Annas offers an account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. She argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of the kind we find in someone exercising an everyday practical skill. This helps us to see virtue as part of an agent's happiness.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Virtue, character, and disposition
- Skilled virtuous action
- The scope of virtue
- Virtue and enjoyment
- Virtues and the unity of virtue
- Virtue and goodness
- Living happily
- Living virtuously, living happily
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-35225-7
- 9786613352255
- 0-19-161722-9
- OCLC:
- 922970630
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