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020			_a9781108458207
082			_a179.9 _bMCM
100			_aMcMullin, Irene
245			_aExistential flourishing : a phenomenology of the virtues
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2022 _aCambridge :
300			_aix, 246 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b24.99 _cGBP _d104.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThis innovative volume argues that flourishing is achieved when individuals successfully balance their responsiveness to three kinds of normative claim: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability. Applying underutilised resources in existential phenomenology, Irene McMullin reconceives practical reason, addresses traditional problems in virtue ethics, and analyses four virtues: justice, patience, modesty, and courage. Her central argument is that there is 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. The individual virtues are solutions to specific existential challenges we face in attempting to do so. This book will be important for anyone working in the fields of moral theory, existential phenomenology, and virtue ethics.
650			_aNormativity
650			_aSuccess
650			_aExistential phenomenology
650			_aVirtues
650			_aDeontology
650			_aEgalitarian
650			_a First- person Flourishing
650			_a Mimesis
650			_a Moral luck
650			_a Nietzche
650			_aNormative domains
650			_aPatience
650			_aRussell points
650			_aShared world
650			_aStriving subjectivist
650			_aJustice
650			_aModesty
650			_a Courage
650			_aEthics
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