Intelligent Virtue

by Julia Annas

Book Overview

Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. Annas argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of a kind which can illuminatingly be compared to the kind of reasoning we find in someone exercising a practical skill. Rather than asking at the start how virtues relate to rules, principles, maximizing, or a final end, we should look at the way in which the acquisition and exercise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199228779
• ISBN13: 9780199228775
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"