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Can I read Intelligent Virtue on EtoBox?
Intelligent Virtue by Julia Annas is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Intelligent Virtue about?
Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. Annas argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of a kind which can illuminatingly be compared to the kind of reasoning we find in someone exercising a practical skill. Rather than asking at the start how virtues relate to rules, principles, maximizing, or a final end, we should look at the way in which the acquisition and exercise of virtue can be seen to be in many ways li
Who reads Intelligent Virtue?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julia Annas
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199228782
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Psychology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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