Anna Lännström Loving the Fine (Hardback)

Further Details\n\nTitle: Loving the Fine\nCondition: New\nDescription: \nAssuming 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 L\u00E4nnstr\u00F6m; but, she adds, he also thought that there was no way to prove it to a skeptic or an immoral person. \n L\u00E4nnstr\u00F6m probes Aristotle'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 L\u00E4nnstr\u00F6m explains, the immoral person does not share this love, and therefore Aristotle denied that any argument would convince the immoral person to become good.\nL\u00E4nnstr\u00F6m maintains .