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Virtue and Happiness

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Any human activity is an opportunity to express virtue aimed at happiness or human flourishing. This chapter focuses on the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of virtue, which incorporates both a materialistic pleasure-seeking behavior called hedonic, and an intrinsic or self-fulfilling behavior called eudaimonic. The role and relationship between intellectual (epistemic) and moral virtues is important for overcoming biases that prevent a person from achieving happiness.

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  1. Department of Management Studies/Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

    Surendra Arjoon

  2. Department of Economics and International Finance, Universidad de La Sabana, International School of Economics and Business Administration, Chia, Colombia

    Álvaro Turriago Hoyos

  3. Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Bradley M. Braun

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  1. Surendra Arjoon
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Correspondence to Surendra Arjoon .

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Alejo José G. Sison

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Arjoon, S., Hoyos, Á.T., Braun, B.M. (2015). Virtue and Happiness. In: Sison, A. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6729-4_116-1

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