How Should One Live? Essays on the Virtues

Name: How Should One Live? Essays on the Virtues
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ISBN: 9780198752349

ISBN-10: 0198752342

ISBN-13: 9780198752349

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Roger Crisp

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The last few years have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which have regained their central role in moral philosophy. This thought-provoking new collection is a much-needed survey of virtue ethics and virtue theory. The specially commissioned articles by an international team of philosophers represent the state of the art in this subject and will set the agenda for future work in the area. The contributors--including Lawrence Blum, John Cottingham, Julia Driver, Rosalind Hursthouse, Terence Irwin, Susan Moller Okin, Onora O'Neill, Michael Slote, Michael Stocker, and David Wiggins--cover practical virtue ethics, ancient views of the virtues, impartiality and partiality,…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/27/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Notes On Contributors



Modern Moral Philosophy and the Virtues



Normative Virtue Ethics Rosalind Hursthouse



The Virtues: Theory and Common Sense in Greek Philosophy



Partiality and the Virtues John Cottingham



Kant's Virtues



Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Symmetry



The Virtues and Human Nature



Natural and Artificial Virtues A Vindication of Hume's Scheme



Does Moral Virtue Constitute a Benefit to the Agent?



Deadly Vices?



How Emotions Reveal Value and Help Cure the Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories



Macintyre on Modernity and How It Has Marginalized the Virtues



Feminism, Moral Development, and the Virtues



Community and Virtue


Index