Cahn / Vitrano Happiness and Goodness

Philosophical Reflections on Living Well
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53936-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cahn, Steven

Vitrano, Christine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Talisse, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Robert B. Talisse
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Wasted Lives?
3. Projects of Worth?
4. Flourishing?
5. Things That Matter?
6. Morality and Happiness
7. Morality and Unhappiness
8. Character
9. Appearing Moral
10. God and Morality
11. Heaven and Hell
12. Moral Judgments
13. Moral Standards
14. Choosing the Experience Machine
15. Happiness and Ignorance
16. Assessing Achievement
17. Pleasures and Pains
18. Fear of the Divine
19. Fear of Unfulfilled Desires
20. Fear of Death
21. Futility
22. Living Well
23. Satisfaction
24. Concluding Questions
Notes
Index
About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Cahn Steven:
Steven M. Cahn (PhD, Philosophy, Columbia) is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, then as Acting President. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including From Student to Scholar (Columbia, 2008), Fate, Time, and Language (Columbia, 2010), Polishing Your Prose (Columbia, 2013), Freedom and the Self (Columbia, 2015), Happiness and Goodness (Columbia, 2015), and Religion Within Reason (Columbia, 2017); his textbooks and anthologies on ethics, philosophy of religion, and introduction to philosophy, published by Oxford, have appeared in multiple editions.Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written or edited some fifty books, including Fate, Logic, and Time; God, Reason, and Religion; Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia; and From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor.

Christine Vitrano is associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of The Nature and Value of Happiness and coeditor, with Steven M. Cahn, of Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy.