Virtue Ethics

A Pluralistic View
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925388-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 595 g

Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness of ethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues.

Swanton's approach is distinctive in that it departs in significant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions of rightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of moral philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swanton, Christine

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. VIRTUE

- 2: Normative Dimensions of Virtue

- 3: Virtue and the Good Life

- 4: What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue

- II. PROFILES OF THE VIRTUES

- 6: Expression

- 7: Creativity

- III. SHAPE OF THE VIRTUES

- 9: Demandingness

- 10: Virtue and Constraints

- IV. VIRTUE AND ACTION

- 12: Virtues of Practice

- 13: Virtue and Indeterminacy

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

(Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand)