In Hannis' hands the argument aims at a eudaemonist conception of the virtues in Chapter 6, supplementing traditional anti-consumerist virtues such as frugality, temperance and humility with Rosalind Hursthouse's notion of 'right orientation to nature', whilst autonomy itself is further recast in ecological virtue terms as relying upon 'proper understanding of the complex dependencies and interdependencies involved in human life and agency' (p.

It is also captured by the term "eudaemonist ethics.") Accordingly, as living beings we need a guide to conduct, principles to be used when we cannot assess the merits of each action from the start.

To illustrate the first possibility a longer example is required such as the following: to feel squeamish about foreign food, arguably, deprives you from a more eudaemonist lifestyle that would enrich your everyday experience.

West labors mightily to reconstruct Locke into an Aristotelian eudaemonist, and Mossoff follows suit--each of them surpassing Nathan Tarcov's plea (in a 1983 article) for recalling the "non-Lockean" elements in Locke.