Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality
Abstract
Is happiness found through an external focus on accomplishing goals in the
material world? Or is happiness fashioned through an internal focus on
performing one’s duty according to the moral standards of one’s community
(religious or secular)? Might happiness (eudaimonia) consist in taking
personal responsibility for one’s creative capacity to accomplish things
that nature cannot accomplish on its own? Might viewing virtue in terms
of the origins of one’s creativity rather than the external consequences
of one’s actions lead to an understanding of virtue that allows us to be
human and happy?
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Keywords
Eudaimonia, Freedom, Aristotle, Kant, Morality, Happiness, Philosophy Thesis, Religious Studies