On Virtue Ethics

Name: On Virtue Ethics
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ISBN: 9780199247998

ISBN-10: 0199247994

ISBN-13: 9780199247998

Edition: 2001

Authors: Rosalind Hursthouse

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Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late twentieth-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse, who has made notable contributions to this development, now presents a full exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics. She shows how virtue ethics can provide guidance for action, illuminate moral dilemmas, and bring out the moral significance of the emotions. Deliberately avoiding a combative stance, she finds less disagreement between Kantian and neo-Aristotelian approaches than is usual, and she offers the first account from a virtue ethics perspective of acting 'from a sense of duty'. She considers the question which character traits…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



Action



Right Action



Resolvable dilemmas



Irresolvable and tragic dilemmas



Emotion And Motivation



Aristotle and Kant



Virtue and the emotions



The virtuous agent's reasons for action



Moral motivation



Rationality



The virtues benefit their possessor



Naturalism



Naturalism for rational animals



Objectivity


Bibliography


Index