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Author | : Yves R. Simon |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780823211449 |
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This book has its origin in a course on 'Virtues' given by Yves R. Simon in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in the fall quarter of 1957.
Author | : Paula Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052176176X |
Download The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : SDE Classics |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
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Author | : Mariska Leunissen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019060221X |
Download From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses Aristotle's biological views about 'natural character traits' and their importance for moral development. It provides a new, comprehensive account of the physiological underpinnings of moral development and shows that the biological account of natural character provides the conceptual and ideological foundation for Aristotle's ethical views about habituation.
Author | : Yves R. Simon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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". . . the great Catholic philosopher Yves Simon explains with admirable clarity just in what the Aristotelian conception of virtue consists." -Crisis
Author | : Stephen R. Brown |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2008-04-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441146474 |
Download Moral Virtue and Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What make someone a good human being? Is there an objective answer to this question, an answer that can be given in naturalistic terms? For ages philosophers have attempted to develop some sort of naturalistic ethics. Against ethical naturalism, however, notable philosophers have contended that such projects are impossible, due to the existence of some sort of 'gap' between facts and values. Others have suggested that teleology, upon which many forms of ethical naturalism depend, is an outdated metaphysical concept. This book argues that a good human being is one who has those traits the possession of which enables someone to achieve those ends natural to beings like us. Thus, the answer to the question of what makes a good human being is given in terms both objective and naturalistic. The author shows that neither 'is-ought' gaps, nor objections concerning teleology pose insurmountable problems for naturalistic virtue ethics. This work is a much needed contribution to the ongoing debate about ethical theory and ethical virtue.
Author | : Hope May |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441182748 |
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism. On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related. May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics. Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory. May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics.
Author | : Angela McKay Knobel |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0268201080 |
Download Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace. Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas’s theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related. Part 1 examines Aquinas’s own explicit remarks about the infused and acquired virtues and considers whether and to what extent a coherent “theory” of the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues can be found in Aquinas. Knobel argues that while Aquinas says almost nothing about how the infused and acquired virtues are related, he clearly does believe that the “structure” of the infused virtues mirrors that of the acquired in important ways. Part 2 uses that structure to evaluate existing interpretations of Aquinas and argues that no existing account adequately captures Aquinas’s most fundamental commitments. Knobel ultimately argues that the correct account lies somewhere between the two most commonly advocated theories. Written primarily for students and scholars of moral philosophy and theology, the book will also appeal to readers interested in understanding Aquinas’s theory of virtue.
Author | : Christine Swanton |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2003-03-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019153112X |
Download Virtue Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness of ethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues. Swanton's approach is distinctive in that it departs in significant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions of rightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.
Author | : J. Budziszewski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2017-05-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107165784 |
Download Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.