Eudaimonic Ethics

<p>In this book<i> </i>Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature. While her project maintains the fundamental features of the eudaimonistic virtue ethical framework—virtue character and well-being—she constructs these concepts from an empirical basis drawing support from the psychological fields of self-determination and self-regulation theory. Besser-Jones’s resulting account of eudaimonic ethics presents a compelling normative theory and offers insight into what is involved in being a virtuous person and acting well. This original contribution to contemporary ethics and moral psychology puts forward a provocative hypothesis of what an empirically-based moral theory would look like.</p>