Human Goodness Pragmatic Variations on Platonic Themes 1st Edition by Paul Schollmeier ISBN 0511250657 9780521863841

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ISBN 10: 0511250657

ISBN 13: 9780521863841 

Author: Paul Schollmeier 

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.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Schema
1 An Apology
2 The Method in Question
3 Human Happiness
4 Moral Freedoms
5 Moral Imperatives
6 A Question of Cosmology
7 Human Virtue
8 A Symposium
Select Bibliography of Works Cited or Consulted
Index

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