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Existential flourishing : a phenomenology of the virtues

Title
  1. Existential flourishing : a phenomenology of the virtues / Irene McMullin.
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  2. ©2019
Author
  1. McMullin, Irene

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Description
  1. ix, 246 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. This innovative volume argues that flourishing is achieved when individuals successfully balance their responsiveness to three kinds of normative claim: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability. Applying underutilised resources in existential phenomenology, Irene McMullin reconceives practical reason, addresses traditional problems in virtue ethics, and analyses four virtues: justice, patience, modesty, and courage. Her central argument is that there is an irreducible normative plurality arising from the different practical perspectives we can adopt - the first-, second-, and third-person stances - which each present us with different kinds of normative claim. Flourishing is human excellence within each of these normative domains, achieved in such a way that success in one does not compromise success in another. The individual virtues are solutions to specific existential challenges we face in attempting to do so. This book will be important for anyone working in the fields of moral theory, existential phenomenology, and virtue ethics.
Subject
  1. Ethics
  2. Success
  3. Normativity (Ethics)
  4. Existential phenomenology
  5. Virtues
Contents
  1. What is flourishing? -- Three domains of reason -- Justice, the virtues, and existential problem-solving -- Unity, comparison, constraint -- Called to be oneself: role models and the project of becoming virtuous -- Corrupting the youth -- Patience -- Modesty -- Courage.
Call number
  1. JFE 19-3208
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.
Author
  1. McMullin, Irene, author.
Title
  1. Existential flourishing : a phenomenology of the virtues / Irene McMullin.
Publisher
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright date
  1. ©2019
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.
Other form:
  1. ebook version : 9781108576819
LCCN
  1. 2018029889
Other standard identifier
  1. 40028891543
ISBN
  1. 9781108471664 hardcover alkaline paper
  2. 1108471668 hardcover alkaline paper
  3. 9781108576819 electronic book
Research call number
  1. JFE 19-3208
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