Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life

Synopsis

In This Work, Neera K. Badhwar Offers A New Argument For The Ancient Claim That Well-being As The Highest Prudential Good - Eudaimonia - Consists Of Happiness In A Virtuous Life. Virtue Is A Source Of Happiness, But Happiness Also Requires External Goods. The Argument Takes Into Account Recent Work On Happiness, Well-being, And Virtue, And Defends A Neo-aristotelian Conception Of Virtue As An Integrated, But Limited, Intellectual-emotional-action Disposition. Well-being As The Highest Prudential Good -- Well-being : From Subjectivity To Objectivity -- Autonomy And Reality-orientation -- Is Realism Really Bad For You? A Realistic Respone -- Virtue -- Happy Villains And Stoic Sages, External Goods And The Primacy Of Virtue -- Taking Stock. Neera K. Badhwar. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.