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Author | : Michael Slote |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1995-05-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190208104 |
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In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, it places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual and her well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.
Author | : John Bradshaw |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Integrity |
ISBN | : 0553095927 |
Download Reclaiming Virtue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.
Author | : Stephen Mark Gardiner |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780801489686 |
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"There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle and nurturing, allowing it time to flourish before coming to any definitive verdict on its merits.... However, it is hard to deny that modern-day virtue ethics is part of a long, sophisticated and fairly continuous tradition. Not only does the approach have origins almost as ancient as philosophy itself, but its history also includes extensive work by such philosophical luminaries as (at least) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, and (perhaps) Hume and Nietzsche. And this suggests that we should already be in a good position to assess its appeal."--from the Introduction In Virtue Ethics, Old and New, ten philosophers seek to enrich the contemporary understanding and development of virtue ethics through a detailed examination of some key contributions from its past. Their essays demonstrate the continuing relevance of the history of moral philosophy to contemporary debates.
Author | : Roger Crisp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Abortion |
ISBN | : 0198751885 |
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This volume brings together much of the most influential work undertaken in the field of virtue ethics over the last four decades. The ethics of virtue predominated in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian approaches to morality. Divided into four sections, the collection includes articles critical of other traditions; early attempts to offer a positive vision of virtue ethics; some later criticisms of the revival of virtue ethics; and, finally, some recent, more theoretically ambitious essays in virtue ethics.
Author | : Michael Slote Professor of Philosophy University of Maryland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1992-08-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198023898 |
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In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, it places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual and her well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.
Author | : R. Scott Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 135187568X |
Download Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.
Author | : Yves R. Simon |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780823211449 |
Download The Definition of Moral Virtue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Nathan Wood |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2019-11-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498585337 |
Download Virtue Rediscovered Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Virtue ethics occupies the strange position of being one of the oldest and most prominently discussed ethical theories throughout history, and yet many contemporary moral philosophers do not recognize it as a genuine alternative to currently prominent normative theories, such as utilitarianism or Kantian ethics. In Virtue Rediscovered: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Virtue Ethics in the Contemporary Moral Landscape, Nathan Wood argues that this discrepancy requires us to rethink how we understand the function and purpose of normative ethical theories, especially insofar as such theories are expected to be action guiding. All ethical theories guide action, but they do so in two different ways. One way is through stipulating criteria for what we ought to do, but another way is setting a core concern that represents an account of what lies at the heart of morality and determines the moral salience of features in the world. This framework not only clarifies the nature of deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics, but also recasts the debate among them.
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 | : Daniel C. Russell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107001161 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.