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Published
Wooden Books, April 2024
ISBN
9781904263937
Format
Softcover, 58 pages
Dimensions
15.5cm × 12.5cm × 0.7cm

Ethics The Art of Character by

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What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Ethicists Gregory Beabout and Mike Hannis describe various approaches, ancient and modern, to those timeless questions: "What kind of person am I?" and "What should I do?"

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