Prudence and Morality in Ancient and Modern Ethics  

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Annas, Julia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 105 no. 2 (Jan. 1995), page 241-257.
Topik: Ethical; Eudaemonist; Anciet Theory

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In acient ethical theories, the entry point for ethical reflection is the agent's reflection on her life as a whole, and the ordering of her priorities. Although ancient moral philosophers do not neglect cases of ethical conflict as much as is often thought, they do not regard ethical theory primaly as a mechanism for solving ethical conflict. Rather, the assumption is that each of us has a vague and unarticulated idea of an overall or final goal in our life, and the task of ethical theory is to give each person a clear, articulated, and correct account of this overall goal and how to achieve it. The different theories of course disagree as to what the correct account is, but whether the right answer is the life of pleasure or the life of virtue, it is the attainment of a clear and definite conception of his final end which enables the agent to get a clear grsap of his priorities and a principled grasp of how to cat. Since our final end can be specified at the intuitive level, prior to theoretical reflection, as eudaimonia or happiness, ancient theories are frequently called eudaemonist.

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