From Morality to Virtue

Name: From Morality to Virtue
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ISBN: 9780195075625

ISBN-10: 0195075625

ISBN-13: 9780195075625

Edition: 1992

Authors: Michael Slote

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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…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Introduction
Kantian, Utilitarian, and Common-Sense Ethics
Some Advantages of Virtue Ethics	p. 3
Morality and Rationality	p. 22
Incoherence in Kantian and Common-Sense Moral Thinking	p. 31
Utilitarianism	p. 58
Virtue Ethics
Rudiments of Virtue Ethics	p. 87
Virtue Rules	p. 104
Virtue-Ethical Luck	p. 117
Virtue, Self, and Other	p. 126
Virtue in Friends and Citizens	p. 145
Virtue Ethics, Imperatives, and the Deontic	p. 159
Between Virtue Ethics and Utilitarianism
Reduction vs. Elimination	p. 171
Two Kinds of Intrinsic Goodness	p. 184
Reduction vs. Elevation	p. 198
Reasons for Preferring Virtue Ethics
The Main Issue Between Utilitarianism and Virtue Ethics	p. 227
Utilitarian Underdetermination	p. 239
Forms of Pluralism	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 254
Index	p. 265
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