Morals from Motives

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-517020-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 339 g

Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slote, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I: MORALITY AND JUSTICE

- ONE: Agent-Based Virtue Ethics

- 1: Virtue Ethics

- 2: Objections to Agent-Basing

- 3: Morality as Inner Strength

- 4: Morality as Universal Benevolence

- 5: Morality as Caring and Further Aspects of Agent-Basing

- TWO: Morality and the Practical

- 1: Is Agent-basing Practical?

- 2: The Value of Conscientousness

- 3: Moral Conflict

- THREE: The Structure of Caring

- 1: Caring and Love

- 2: Balanced Caring

- 3: Balanced Caring versus Aggregative Partialism

- 4: Self-Concern

- 5: Sentimentalist Deontology

- 6: Caring versus the Philosophers

- FOUR: The Justice of Caring

- 1: From the Personal to the Political

- 2: Social Justice

- 3: Laws and Their Applications

- 4: Conclusion

- FIVE: Universal Benevolence versus Caring

- 1: Universal Benevolence and Universal Love

- 2: The Justice of Universal Benevolence

- 3: Humanitarianism and Religious Belief

- 4: Humanitarianism and Intolerance

- 5: The Choice between Caring and Universal Benevolence

- PART II: PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOOD

- SIX: The Virtue in Self-Interest

- 1: Unification in Utilitarianism

- 2: Elevation versus Reduction

- 3: Is Elevation Viable?

- 4: Aristotelian Elevationism

- 5: Platonic Elevationism

- 6: Conclusion

- SEVEN: Agent-Based Practical Reason

- 1: Conceptions of Practical Reason

- 2: Agent-Based Rationality

- 3: Practical Reason and Self-Interest

- 4: The Rational Requiements of Morality

- 5: Conclusion

- EIGHT: Extending the Approach

- 1: Hyper-Agent-Basing

- 2: General Conclusion

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

(Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, Philadelphia, USA)