Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 233 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780191880131
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Does being virtuous make you happy? In this work, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198840473
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Crisp, Roger, 1961 - Sacrifice regained Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2019 ISBN 9780198840473
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Ethik
;
Glück
;
Eigennutz
;
Tugend
;
Geschichte 1650-1850
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198840473.001.0001
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