...Christy Mag Uidhir Cornell University 2009 Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi + 186 pp. BOOK REVIEWS Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life...

...Stephen S. Bush Nicomachean Ethics presents a puzzle as to whether Aristotle views morally virtuous activity as happiness, as book 1 seems to indicate, or philosophical contemplation as happiness, as book 10 seems to indicate. The most influential attempts to resolve this issue have been either...

... the familiar naturalist story (without addressing the familiar objections) of grounding morality in human nature, and then making good human functioning (including exercising the moral virtues) central to happiness. This way there is no longer a tension between two goals of practical rationality (morality vs...

...Richard Kraut Badhwar Neera K. , Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life . New York: Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi + 245 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 The thesis of this book is expressed by its title and subtitle: well-being consists in “happiness...

...Chris Bobonich Brink David O. Meyer Susan Sauvé Shields Christopher , eds., Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2018 . x+318 pp © 202020 by Cornell University 2020 This volume...

...Niko Kolodny Rousseau's thought is marked by an optimism and a pessimism that each evoke, at least in the right mood, a feeling of recognition difficult to suppress. We have an innate capacity for virtue, and with it freedom and happiness. Yet our present social conditions instill in us a restless...

... view that 'ought' always expresses this relation—adherents of the naive view are happy to allow that 'ought' also has an evaluative sense, on which it means, roughly, that were things ideal, some proposition would be the case. What is important to the naive view is that there is also a deliberative...

... by the above distinctions. 3. Unconditioned Value: the Good Will, Humanity, Happiness Kant, as already hinted, was sensitive to these distinctions in goodness, and his sensitivity is best illustrated in what he says about the good will, on the one hand, and happiness, on the other. The good will has...

...Thomas Williams Van Nieuwenhove Rik , Thomas Aquinas and Contemplation . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . ix + 220 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Everybody knows (for the relevant value of ‘everybody’) that, for Thomas Aquinas, perfect happiness consists...

...-being, or happiness (8). Harmonizing eudaimonism is the thesis that if there is a plurality of ingredients of happiness, they can all be fully realized by the individual without significant conflict among them (218). Harmonizing eudaimonism thus not only guarantees that the self-confined aims...

... In this essay I will argue, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. According to the textbook definition, of course, utilitarianism just is the combination of a certain sort of theory of the good (as pleasure, happiness, or flourishing) and a consequentialist the- ory...

... value and justifies the virtues by showing how they contrib- ute to the agent s own eudaimonia or happiness. By contrast, Kant distin- guishes sharply between moral and nonmoral value and criticizes Greek eudaimonism for justifymg morality in terms of happiness. Greek, espe- cially Aristotelian...

..., Heteronomy, and Kant's Principle of Happiness .” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70 : 42 – 72 . Wood, Allen. 2010. “Kant and the Intelligibility of Evil.” In Kant's Anatomy of Evil, edited by Pablo Muchnik and Sharon Anderson-Gold, 144–72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . 1. Quotations...

... into modern problems like global warming. True, Becker ends his book with an explanation of how a stoic sage can be happy on the rack, but since it is inappropriate for any reviewer to divulge the end of a book, I shall leave all would-be stoics and other readers in suspense...

... formulations and applications, Sidgwick (1981 [1907] , 381; also 124n1) says that “hereafter as such is to be regarded neither more nor less than Now” or “a smaller present good is not to be preferred to a greater future good” or “present pleasure or happiness is reasonably to be foregone with the view...

... theoretical questions about the nature of justice, virtue, and happiness. These philosophical questions take precedence over the practical question of whether the Kallipolis is actually feasible, though Socrates does indicate that it could come into existence if there were a few people untouched...

..., that the Republicshould not be read as retracting an ear- lier, “Socratic” commitment to the sufficiency of virtue for happiness. Even when scholars have not denied this, their tendency to discuss the Republic as more specifically a vindication of justice has tended to obscure the point...

... for moral reasons while one is depressed takes more concern for those moral reasons than to do so in happy times.20 Huck takes himself to be acting rightly (whatever term he would use instead)—to show that he acts from the motive of duty. And this is surely incredible. 18. As I note above...

... happiness as godlike, initially on the basis of its etymology, he makes no reference to the gods when showing that happiness, the highest human good, must be final (pursued for its own sake) and self-sufficient (requiring virtually no external aid for its successful performance); nor does he refer...

... . The Morality of Happiness. New York: Oxford University Press. ____. 1995 . “Reply to Cooper.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 : 600 -10. Cooper, John. 1995 . “Eudaimonism and the Appeal to Nature in the Morality of Happiness.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 : 587 -99...