How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0198752342 ISBN 13: 9780198752349

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1999

Riassunto

The last four decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which lay at the heart of ancient and medieval moral philosophy. This collection is the first general survey of this revival, containing specially commissioned articles on topics central to virtue ethics and virtue theory, written by a distinguished international team of philosophers. It represents the state of the art in this subject, and will set the agenda for future work.

Topics covered in How Should One Live? include: practical virtue ethics; ancient views of the virtues; impartiality and partiality; Kant and the virtues; utilitarianism and the virtues; the virtues and human nature; natural and artificial virtues; virtue and the good life; the vices; virtue and the emotions; virtue and politics; feminism, moral education, and the virtues; and virtue and community.

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Recensione:

this volume is probably the best single introduction to what is going on in virtue ethics today. (Lester Hunt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ethics, April 1999)

Contenuti:

• 1: Roger Crisp: Introduction. Modern moral philosophy and the virtues
• 2: Rosalind Hursthouse: Practical Ethics. Normative virtue ethics
• 3: T. H. Irwin: Ancient Views. The virtues: theory and common sense in Greek philosophy
• 4: John Cottingham: Impartiality and Partiality. Partiality and the virtues
• 5: Onora O'Neill: Kant. Kant's virtues
• 6. Utilitarianism. Virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and symmetry: (Michael Slote:
• 7: Julia Driver: Human Nature. The virtues and human nature
• 8: David Wiggins: Natural and Artificial Virtues. A vindication of Hume's scheme
• 9: Brad Hooker: Virtues and the Good. Does moral virtue constitute a benefit to the agent?
• 10: Gabriele Taylor: Vices. Deadly vices?
• 11: Michael Stocker: Emotions. How emotions reveal value and help cure the schizophrenia of modern ethical theories
• 12: Andrew Mason: Politics. MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues
• 13: Susan Moller Okin: Feminism and Moral Education. Feminism, moral development, and the virtues
• 14: Lawrence Blum: Community. Community and virtue

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0198752342
• ISBN 13: 9780198752349
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Crisp Roger