Eudaimonism, Virtue, and Self‐Sacrifice. Issue 1 (19th February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Couenhoven, Jesse
• Is Part Of: Journal of religious ethics. Volume 47:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 14
• Publication Date: 2019-02-19
• Subjects: eudaimonism -- happiness -- flourishing -- egoism -- Neoplatonism; Ethics -- Periodicals; Religious ethics -- Periodicals; Morale religieuse; Religion; Théologie; 205
• DOI: 10.1111/jore.12247
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0384-9694

Abstract

Abstract: This essay introduces some of the key topics at stake in the ongoing controversies about the place of eudaimonism in Christian ethics and theology. Whether and in what way a person should seek her or his own happiness and flourishing has been a central question in ethics for centuries. Here I summarize the contributions the essays in this focus issue make to that conversation, and conclude by briefly sketching a Neoplatonist approach to eudaimonism that may offer a way to build on the insights and concerns articulated in the focus essays.