Happiness, morality, and freedom /

Happiness, morality, and freedom /

To be happy is to be emotionally and evaluatively satisfied with one's life according to a standard of satisfaction one can claim as one's own as a reasoning being. Since there is no definitive proof of what the standard of satisfaction is, being open to the devising and testing of standar...

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Main Author: Melnick, Arthur.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 8.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

Subjects:

Happiness.
Ethics.
Liberty.

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Call Number: BJ1481 .M47 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Happiness as Endorsed Contentment
  • The Final Good and the Final End
  • Reason and True Happiness
  • The Happiness of Others
  • The Fundamental Principle of Morality
  • The Content of the Fundamental Principle
  • Other Accounts of Morality
  • Freedom, Deliberation, and the Self
  • Freedom, Ultimate Power, and Ultimate Responsibility
  • Bibliography
  • Index.