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Desiring the good : ancient proposals and contemporary theory / Katja Maria Vogt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vogt, Katja Maria, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil.
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Ethics.
- Ethics, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages)
- Other Title:
- Ancient proposals and contemporary theory
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This work 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.'
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-069250-2
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