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  title info:
    title: Enjoyment
    sub title: the moral significance of styles of life
  name:
    name part: Kekes, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford, UK
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (293 pages)
  abstract: "The central thesis of John Kekes's book is that enjoyment is indispensable to a good life. The key to it is the development of a style of life that combines an attitude and a manner of living and acting that jointly express one's deepest concerns. Since such styles vary with characters and circumstances, a reasonable understanding of them requires attending to the particular and concrete details of individual lives. Reflection on works of literature is a better guide to this kind of understanding than the futile search for general theories and principles that preoccupies much of contemporary moral thought." "Enjoyment proceeds by the detailed examination of particular cases, shows how this kind of reflection can be reasonably conducted, and how the quest for universality and impartiality is misguided in this context. Central to the argument is a practical, particular, pluralistic, and yet objective conception of reason that rejects the pervasive contemporary tendency to regard reasons as good only if they are binding on all who aspire to live reasonably and morally. Reason in morality is neither theoretical nor general. Reasons for living and acting in particular ways are individually variable and none the worse for that."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Styles of life -- The evaluation of styles of life -- Some particular styles of life.
  note: John Kekes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Pleasure
  subject:
    topic: Joy
  subject:
    topic: Life
  subject:
    topic: Plaisir
  subject:
    topic: Joie
  subject:
    topic: joy
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Joy
  subject:
    topic: Life
  subject:
    topic: Pleasure
  classification: BJ1481 .K45 2008eb
  classification: 170 22
  classification: 08.38
  classification: 15.07
  classification: 71.50
  classification: CC 7200
  classification: 5,1
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    title info:
      title: Enjoyment
    name:
      name part: Kekes, John.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press, 2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2008011956
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  record info:
    record content source: UK-RwCLS
    record creation date: 080317
    record change date: 20260318174828.1
    record identifier: in00005704223
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng