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Author : Steven M. Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book A Primer of Modern Virtue Ethics written by Steven M. Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liezl van Zyl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135045984
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Virtue Ethics written by Liezl van Zyl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a clear and accessible overview of central concepts, positions, and arguments in virtue ethics today. While it focuses primarily on Aristotelian virtue ethics, it also includes discussion of alternative forms of virtue ethics (sentimentalism and pluralism) and competing normative theories (consequentialism and deontology). The first six chapters are organized around central questions in normative ethics that are of particular concern to virtue ethicists and their critics: What is virtue ethics? What makes a trait a virtue? Is there a link between virtue and happiness? What is involved in being well-motivated? What is practical wisdom? What makes an action right? The last four chapters focus on important challenges or objections to virtue ethics: Can virtue ethics be applied to particular moral problems? Does virtue ethics ultimately rely on moral principles? Can it withstand the situationist critique? What are the prospects for an environmental virtue ethics? ?
Author : Stephen M. Gardiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724274
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Virtue Ethics, Old and New written by Stephen M. Gardiner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle and nurturing, allowing it time to flourish before coming to any definitive verdict on its merits.... However, it is hard to deny that modern-day virtue ethics is part of a long, sophisticated and fairly continuous tradition. Not only does the approach have origins almost as ancient as philosophy itself, but its history also includes extensive work by such philosophical luminaries as (at least) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, and (perhaps) Hume and Nietzsche. And this suggests that we should already be in a good position to assess its appeal."—from the Introduction In Virtue Ethics, Old and New, ten philosophers seek to enrich the contemporary understanding and development of virtue ethics through a detailed examination of some key contributions from its past. Their essays demonstrate the continuing relevance of the history of moral philosophy to contemporary debates.
Author : Jonathan J. Sanford
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813227399
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Before Virtue written by Jonathan J. Sanford and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Sanford finds that despite the common origins of contemporary virtue ethics in Anscombe, the literature varies widely not just in its scope but in its basic commitments. What exactly is contemporary virtue ethics? In Before Virtue, Sanford develops strategies for describing contemporary virtue ethics accurately. He then assesses contemporary virtue approaches by the Anscombean dual standard which inspired them: the degree to which they avoid the pitfalls of modern moral philosophy and the extent to which they exemplify a successful recovery of an Aristotelian approach to ethics.
Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198751885
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Virtue Ethics written by Roger Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together much of the most influential work undertaken in the field of virtue ethics over the last four decades. The ethics of virtue predominated in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian approaches to morality. Divided into four sections, the collection includes articles critical of other traditions; early attempts to offer a positive vision of virtue ethics; some later criticisms of the revival of virtue ethics; and, finally, some recent, more theoretically ambitious essays in virtue ethics.
Author : Statman Daniel Statman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472842
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Virtue Ethics written by Statman Daniel Statman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question in contemporary ethics is whether virtue can replace duty as the primary notion in ethical theory. The subject of intense contemporary debate in ethical theory, virtue ethics is currently enjoying an increase in interest. This is the first book to focus directly on the subject. It provides a clear, systematic introduction to the area and houses under one cover a collection of the central articles published on the debate over the past decade. The essays encompass a wide range ofaspects: the difference between virtue ethics and traditional duty ethics; present arguments for and against virtue ethics; the practical implications of virtue ethics and the Aristotelian and Kantian attitudes to virtue ethics.
Author : Jennifer Welchman
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872208094
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Virtue written by Jennifer Welchman and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology can be used to cover the virtue ethics component of an ethics course, either in conjunction with one of the larger ethics texts -- many include no material on virtue theory, or very little -- or with free standing editions; as the centrepiece of a course devoted entirely to virtue theory; or as a component of an introductory course that includes a section on ethics. Part 1 includes readings from five classic thinkers with importantly distinct approaches to virtue. Part 2 provides five new essays from contemporary thinkers that apply virtue theories to the resolution of practical moral problems. Jennifer Welchman provides a general Introduction on the history of virtue theory, a short introduction to each selection that highlights the distinctive aspects of the author's view, and suggested further readings for each selection.
Author : Daniel C. Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107469775
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics written by Daniel C. Russell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory and other topics discussed include the history of virtue-based approaches to ethics, what makes these approaches distinctive, what they can say about specific practical issues and where we can expect them to go in the future. This Companion will be useful to students of virtue ethics and the history of ethics and to others who want to understand how virtue ethics is changing the face of contemporary moral philosophy.
Author : Nancy E. Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108586295
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Virtue Ethics written by Nancy E. Snow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element provides an overview of the central components of recent work in virtue ethics. The first section explores central themes in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, while the second turns the discussion to major alternative theoretical perspectives. The third section focuses on two challenges to virtue ethics. The first challenge is the self-centeredness or egoism objection, which is the notion that certain kinds of virtue ethics are inadequate because they advocate a focus on the person's own virtue and flourishing at the expense of, or at least without due regard for, the concerns of others. The second is situationist challenges to the ideas that there are indeed virtues and that personality is integrated enough to support virtues.
Author : Nafsika Athanassoulis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441126724
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Virtue Ethics written by Nafsika Athanassoulis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aristotle to MacIntyre, this introduction to virtue ethics critically explores competing accounts of 'virtue' and potential uses and future directions for the discipline.
Author : Daniel J. Daly
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 164712039X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Structures of Virtue and Vice written by Daniel J. Daly and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new ethics for understanding the social forces that shape moral character. It is easy to be vicious and difficult to be virtuous in today’s world, especially given that many of the social structures that connect and sustain us enable exploitation and disincentivize justice. There are others, though, that encourage virtue. In his book Daniel J. Daly uses the lens of virtue and vice to reimagine from the ground up a Catholic ethics that can better scrutinize the social forces that both affect our moral character and contribute to human well-being or human suffering. Daly’s approach uses both traditional and contemporary sources, drawing on the works of Thomas Aquinas as well as incorporating theories such as critical realist social theory, to illustrate the nature and function of social structures and the factors that transform them. Daly’s ethics focus on the relationship between structure and agency and the different structures that enable and constrain an individual’s pursuit of the virtuous life. His approach defines with unique clarity the virtuous structures that facilitate a love of God, self, neighbor, and creation, and the vicious structures that cultivate hatred, intemperance, and indifference to suffering. In doing so, Daly creates a Catholic ethical framework for responding virtuously to the problems caused by global social systems, from poverty to climate change.
Author : Craig A. Boyd
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 9781585585090
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A Shared Morality written by Craig A. Boyd and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality based on natural law has a long tradition, and has proven to be quite resilient in the face of numerous attacks and challenges over the years. Those challenges are no less serious today, which leads one to ask if natural law is still a viable foundation for ethics. Craig Boyd provides a contemporary defense of natural law theory against modern challenges from the arenas of science, religion, culture, and philosophy. In his analysis, he defends many of the classical elements of natural law, but also takes into account the contributions of scientific discoveries about human nature. He concludes that natural law is a necessary but not sufficient basis for ethics that must be accompanied by a theory of virtue.
Author : Douglas C. Langston
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271031166
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Conscience and Other Virtues written by Douglas C. Langston and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscience, once a core concept for ethics, has mostly disappeared from modern moral theory. In this book Douglas Langston traces its intellectual history to account for its neglect while arguing for its still vital importance, if correctly understood. In medieval times, Langston shows in Part I, the notions of "conscientia" and "synderesis" from which our contemporary concept of conscience derives were closely connected to Greek ideas about the virtues and practical reason, although in Christianized form. As modified by Luther, Butler, and Kant, however, conscience later came to be regarded as a faculty like will and intellect, and when faculty psychology fell into disrepute, so did the role of conscience in moral philosophy. A view of mature conscience that sees it as relational, with cognitive, emotional, and conative dimensions, can survive the criticisms of conscience as faculty. In Part II, through discussions of Freud, Ryle, and other modern thinkers, Langston proceeds to reconstruct conscience as a viable philosophical concept. Finally, in Part III, this better grounded concept is connected with the modern revival of virtue ethics, and Langston shows how crucial conscience is to a theory of virtue because it is fundamental to the training of any morally good person.
Author : Steven M Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Virtue and Value written by Steven M Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author returns to and completes the moral theory he first began to construct in A Primer of Modern Virtue Ethics (UPA, 1995). Approaching moral theory from three distinct directions - the Moral Law, Virtue Ethics, and the pursuit of Happiness, the author shows how sustained critical reflection leads to a single, unified moral theory that finds both its natural complement and its natural completion in Christian soteriology. That same soteriology also provides answers to other significant questions of life, as the author goes on to argue in the final essay in the book, which completes his trilogy of books on topics in Christian philosophy.
Author : Tim Chappell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492641
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Ethics and Experience written by Tim Chappell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethics and Experience" presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived? 'An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which we apply reason to try and solve Socrates' question. "Ethics and Experience "examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, error theory', naturalism, and intuitionism. The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral theories - including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and contractarianism - and reconsiders these theories in the light of two questions that should perhaps be asked more often: Is moral theory, with its tendency to regiment ethical thought and experience, really the best way for us to apply reason to deciding how to live? And, might it not be more truly reasonable to look for less system and more insight?
Author : Elisa Grimi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030158608
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect written by Elisa Grimi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the current conversation about virtue. Among many other thought-provoking questions, the collection addresses the following: What are the virtues, and how are they enumerated? What are the internal problems among ethicists, and what are the objections and replies to contemporary virtue ethics? Additionally, the practical implications following from the answers to these questions are discussed in new and fascinating research. Fundamental concepts such as teleology and eudaimonism are addressed from both a historical and dialectical approach. This tome will contribute not only to providing further clarity to the current horizons in virtue ethics, but also to the practical conclusion following from the study: to challenge the reader toward a greater pursuit of the virtuous life.
Author : Nathan Wood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498585337
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Virtue Rediscovered written by Nathan Wood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue ethics occupies the strange position of being one of the oldest and most prominently discussed ethical theories throughout history, and yet many contemporary moral philosophers do not recognize it as a genuine alternative to currently prominent normative theories, such as utilitarianism or Kantian ethics. In Virtue Rediscovered: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Virtue Ethics in the Contemporary Moral Landscape, Nathan Wood argues that this discrepancy requires us to rethink how we understand the function and purpose of normative ethical theories, especially insofar as such theories are expected to be action guiding. All ethical theories guide action, but they do so in two different ways. One way is through stipulating criteria for what we ought to do, but another way is setting a core concern that represents an account of what lies at the heart of morality and determines the moral salience of features in the world. This framework not only clarifies the nature of deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics, but also recasts the debate among them.
