Happiness
Elizabeth Telfer


	
		
		
	
	
		
			
			
				
					<p><span>This book examines two concepts central to
moral philosophy, those of hedonistic
happiness and of </span><span>eudaemonia, </span><span>the worth­
while life, and explores the relationship
between them.</span><span> The author argues that while </span><span>eudaemonia </span><span>is
empirically neither necessary nor sufficient</span><span> for hedonistic happiness, hedonistic happiness
may be part of the definition of </span><span>eudaemonia.
</span><span>She considers whether we ought to pursue
happiness of either kind and concludes: firstly that there is a kind of hypothetical
imperative enjoining the pursuit of hedonis­tic happiness and that we have a </span><span>prima facie
</span><span>duty to pursue it in so far as that pursuit is an
exercise in the distinctive human endowment
of rationality; secondly we have the same
duty to pursue our own </span><span>eudaemonia </span><span>and
finally that in general we have a duty to
foster the ends of others and also their own
</span><span>eudaemonia </span><span>if this can be achieved in non-
coercive ways.
</span></p>
				
			
		
	
