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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9780511498688
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498688
Subjects:
History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History, Political Philosophy
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Book description

Human Goodness presents an original, pragmatic moral theory that successfully revives and revitalizes the classical Greek concept of happiness. It also includes in-depth discussions of our freedoms, our obligations, and our virtues, as well as adroit comparisons with the moral theories of Kant and Hume. Paul Schollmeier explains that the Greeks define happiness as an activity that we may perform for its own sake. Obvious examples might include telling stories, making music, or dancing. He then demonstrates that we may use the pragmatic method to discover and to define innumerable activities of this kind. Schollmeier's demonstration rests on the modest assumption that our happiness takes not one ideal form, but many empirical forms.

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"Schollmeier has...reminded us how infinitely fascinating and important the Platonic conception of happiness is." Alan Pichanick, St. John's College, Annapolis

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