The Stranger's Religion: Fascination and Fear by Anna Lannstrom - 2004

Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2004-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Few light bumps to corners of covers. No markings on clean, flat pages. Excellent binding.

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New. Assuming that people want to be happy, can we show that they cannot be happy without being ethical, and that all rational people therefore should be able to see that it is in their own best interest to be ethical? Is it irrational to reject ethics? Aristotle thought so, claims Anna Lannstroem; but, she adds, he also thought that there was no way to prove it to a skeptic or an immoral person. Lannstroem probes Artistotle's view that desire is crucial to decision making and to the formation of moral habits, pinpointing the "love of the fine" as the starting point of any argument for ethics. Those who love the fine can be persuaded that ethics is a crucial part of our happiness. However, as Lannstroem explains, the immoral person does not share this love and therefore Aristotle denied that this argument would convince the immoral person to change. Lannstroem maintains, thus, that Aristotle's Ethics was written for those who already love the fine, aiming to help them… Read More

Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2004. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 200 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.