Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 1615
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108617260
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1108471664
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Applying underutilised resources in existential phenomenology, this book reconceives practical reason, addresses traditional problems in virtue ethics, and provides original accounts of four virtues: justice, patience, modesty, and courage. Its central argument amounts to a bold new approach in virtue ethics. McMullin argues for an irreducible normative plurality arising from the different practical perspectives we can adopt - the first-, second-, and third-person stances - which each present us with different kinds of normative claim. Flourishing is human excellence within each of these normative domains, achieved in such a way that success in one does not compromise success in another.
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- Non-English
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