Hunting for Happiness: Aristotle and the Good of Action
The starting point of the dissertation is a special kind of intentional action -- Aristotelian praxis, or, in a more metaphysical register, energeia -- a kind whose agent's intention in acting must be expressible as the deliverance of one's prohairesis (``deliberate choice''), ac...
Main Author: | Tontiplaphol, Don |
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Other Authors: | Tuck, Richard |
Language: | en_US |
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Harvard University
2014
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Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11307 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11744464 |
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