Summary
The art of living and morality
Or does virtue make you happy?
The book "The art of living and morality or does virtue make you happy?" represents the crown and also the synthesis of several decades of work by this leading German and world expert in the field of practical philosophy. One of the main virtues of the book lies in the ability to simply synthesize and present the most important ethical problems in an extremely transparent and clear way, while constantly bringing them into connection with the most important, but also with everyday issues of human existence. The book demonstrates the controversy between happiness and freedom, which, according to the author, names the main tension of ethics in both the historical-philosophical and systemic aspects, but also encompasses the essence of the most important issues of a happy, successful and meaningful life. Hoffe's work exudes a spirit of wisdom which, without complex scientific apparatus and with recourse to the smallest possible measure of academic scholarship, indicates to the average person, not a philosopher, how one should properly think about life and position oneself in it and act.
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