| dc.contributor.author | Speth, Christopher | |
| dc.date | 2012 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-05T19:33:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-05T19:33:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-06-05 | |
| dc.identifier.other | W Thesis 1412 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11040/23776 | |
| dc.description | i, 80 leaves. | en_US |
| dc.description | Bibliography: leaf 80. | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I advance the notion that moral virtues are necessary to live a truly happy life. This is a response to the Humean claim that agents do not have a reason to be moral. I examine what happiness is, and how morality is a means to achieving it. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | The hypothetical nature of moral reasons -- The nature of happiness -- How the human drive for happiness motivates morality -- Objections to my view. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.) | |
| dc.subject | Undergraduate research | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ethics | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Practical reason | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Egoism | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Virtue | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Happiness | |
| dc.title | Happiness through virtue: the egoistic reasons for morality | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
