Virtue Ethics

Name: Virtue Ethics
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ISBN: 9780631231141

ISBN-10: 0631231145

ISBN-13: 9780631231141

Edition: 2003

Authors: Stephen Darwall

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Virtue Ethics is a major approach to normative ethical theory that takes the consideration of character as fundamental to ethical reflection. Philosophers who seek an alternative to the main deontological and consequentialist traditions in modern moral theory have looked to this perspective, especially in the last twenty years. Virtue Ethics collects, for the first time, the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this increasingly important tradition. In addition to Aristotle, the classical source of "nonmoral" virtue theory, it includes the esteem-based virtue ethics of Francis Hutcheson and David Hume. Contemporary virtue ethicists included are Philippa Foot,…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



Classical Sources



From The Nicomachean Ethics




From An Inquiry into the Original of Our Idea of Virtue




From Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals




Contemporary Expressions



"Virtues and Vices"




"Virtue and Reason"




"The Nature of the Virtues"




"What Do Women Want in Moral Theory?"




"Normative Virtue Ethics"




"Agent-Based Virtue Ethics"




Contemporary Discussion



"On the Primacy of Character"



Index