The Art of Living Well: Moral Experience and Virtue Ethics
- ISBN-10
- 1350012858
- ISBN-13
- 9781350012851
- Series
- The Art of Living Well
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-14
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Paul van Tongeren
Description
In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title Leven is Een Kunst, Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue ethics, one that centres on how to 'live well' in our contemporary world. While virtue ethics is based on the moral philosophy of Aristotle, it has had many interpretations and iterations throughout history and features prominently in the thinking of the Stoics, Christian narratives and the writings of Nietzsche. The Art of Living Well explores and expands upon these traditions, using them as a basis to form a new interpretation; one that foregrounds art and creativity as paramount to the struggle to act in an authentic and moral way. Acting as both a clear introduction to virtue ethics and moral philosophy and a serious work of original philosophy, this book connects philosophy with real lived experience and tackles, head-on, the perennial philosophical question: 'how do we live well?'
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