The Call to Happiness : Eudaimonism in English Puritan Thought

Warne, Nathaniel A.

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 268 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978700246
• DDC分類 248.4

Full Description

In The Call to Happiness, Nathaniel A. Warne examines how sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritans adopted a eudaimonistic conception of ethics in their writings. He shows how classical eudaimonism within the Puritan context is related to other areas of theology, ethics, and politics, and that the idea of divine calling or vocation fits within Puritan eudaimonism. Warne further shows how work can also be understood as an aspect of human flourishing when illuminated from within this tradition of Christian eudaimonism alongside the doctrine of calling.

Contents

Chapter 1: Puritanism and the 'Haunting Fear'
Chapter 2: Nature, Ends, and Happiness
Chapter 3: Reason, Theoria, and Praxis
Chapter 4: A 'Kind of Life': Rationality, Virtue, and Moral Development
Chapter 5: 'Imposed on Man:' Personhood, Command and Calling
Chapter 6: 'Common Good:' Community and the Political
Chapter 7: Community, Friendship, and Law
Chapter 8: Puritan Ethics and a Tradition of Happiness