Virtue Ethics
A Pluralistic View
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 March 2005
- ISBN 9780199278473
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 216x139x18 mm
- Weight 422 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. The book departs in significant ways from classical virtue ethics and neo-Aristotelianism, employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, resulting in a highly distinctive and original brand of virtue ethics.
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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 departing in siginificant 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.
Review from previous edition With Christine Swanton's new book, contemporary virtue ethics takes a confident step out of the philosophical nursery ... no one interested in the health and prospects of moral philosophy should ignore this excellent book.
Table of Contents:
I. VIRTUE
The Anatomy of Virtue
Normative Dimensions of Virtue
Virtue and the Good Life
What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue
II. PROFILES OF THE VIRTUES
Love and Respect
Expression
Creativity
III. SHAPE OF THE VIRTUES
Objectivity
Demandingness
Virtue and Constraints
IV. VIRTUE AND ACTION
A Virtue Ethical Account of Right Action
Virtues of Practice
Virtue and Indeterminacy
Conclusion
