Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life

by Neera Kapur Badhwar

Book Overview

This book offers a new argument for the ancient claim that well-being as the highest prudential good -- eudaimonia --consists of happiness in a virtuous life. The argument takes into account recent work on happiness, well-being, and virtue, and defends a neo-Aristotelian conception of virtue as an integrated intellectual-emotional disposition that is limited in both scope and stability. This conception of virtue is argued to be widely held and compatible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190682078
• ISBN13: 9780190682071
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"