Moral Wisdom and Good Lives /

Moral Wisdom and Good Lives / / John Kekes.

In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument that considers the adversities inherent in the human condition and assists in the achievement of good li...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Kekes, John,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A First Approximation
  • CHAPTER ONE. A Eudaimonistic Conception of Good Lives
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Socratic Ideal and Its Problems
  • CHAPTER THREE. Permanent Adversities
  • CHAPTER FOUR. judgment and Control
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Moral Imagination: The First Mode of Reflection
  • CHAPTER SIX. Self-Knowledge: The Second Mode of Reflection
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Self-Knowledge: The Second Mode of Reflection (continued)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Moral Depth: The Third Mode of Reflection
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Ideal of justice
  • CHAPTER TEN. Growing in Moral Wisdom
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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