The Call to Happiness
Eudaimonism in English Puritan Thought
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2019
292 pages
978-1-9787-0025-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-0025-3 (9781978700253)
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Book
12/2019
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
€121.50
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Person
Nathaniel A. Warne (PhD, Durham University, UK) is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame in the Center for Social Concerns and also ministers in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana.
Content
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
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
