Eudaimonic Ethics:The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well:27 (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)

by: Lorraine Besser (Author)

Publisher: Routledge
Edition:1st

Publication Date: 14 Feb. 2014

Language: English

Print Length: 196 pages

ISBN-10: 0415728169

ISBN-13: 9780415728164

Book Description

In this book, Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature. While her project maintains the fundamental features of the eudaimonistic virtue ethical framework―virtue, character, and well-being―she constructs these concepts from an empirical basis, drawing support from the psychological fields of self-determination and self-regulation theory. Besser-Jones’s resulting account of “eudaimonic ethics” presents a compelling normative theory and offers insight into what is involved in being a virtuous person and “acting well.” This original contribution to contemporary ethics and moral psychology puts forward a provocative hypothesis of what an empirically-based moral theory would look like.

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