The Virtue of Wit: Humor, Social Connection, and Flourishing

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1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Structure of the Argument No access
2. Methodological Commitments No access
3. Notes No access
1. Ingenium No access
2. Wit and Humor No access
3. The Value of Wit: Social Virtue and Healthful, Pleasant Mental State No access
4. Notes No access
1. Wit as Spontaneous, Playful, Amusing, Small Talk No access
2. Wit and Theories of Comic Amusement No access
3. Notes No access
1. Non-Ideal Moral Theory No access
2. Impure Moral Agency No access
3. 1. Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics No access
  2. Eudaimonism No access
  3. Flourishing No access
4. Notes No access
1. Contemporary Accounts of Wit as a Virtue No access
2. 1. Wit Is a Multifaceted Disposition No access
  2. Wit Is (Partially) Constitutive of Flourishing No access
  3. Wit “Gets Something Right” in a Domain Important to Human Life No access
3. Two Objections No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Self-Involvement No access
  2. Self-Protection No access
  3. Cynicism No access
2. Pernicious Connection No access
3. Dark Humor No access
4. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 139 - 150
Index No access Pages 151 - 154
About the Author No access Pages 155 - 156