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What constitutes a good, worthwhile, fulfilling life? How should one live? What kind of a person should one be? From Lao Tzu to Aristotle, from Dostoyevsky to Bertrand Russell, philosophers ancient and modern attempted their own answers to these oldest and most enduring of philosophical questions. Frequently figuring in the discussions on the highest, best possible life were the concepts of ‘happiness’ and ‘virtue.’ Notwithstanding inevitable differences in terminology, many great minds posited that the road to a happy, thriving, worth-of-living life is paved with virtues. Aristotle, for instance, believed that happiness (eudaemonia) is within the reach of anyone willing to lead a virtuous life. To Roman Stoic Cicero, the affinity between happiness and virtue was so strong that a man in possession of virtue could be happy even while being tortured. More recently, Rosalind Hursthouse argued that possessing virtue does …