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How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues
from: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 170
EAN: 9780198752349
ISBN: 0198752342
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: August 27, 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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The last few years have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which have regained their central role in moral philosophy. This thought-provoking new collection is a much-needed survey of virtue ethics and virtue theory. The specially commissioned articles by an international team of philosophers represent the state of the art in this subject and will set the agenda for future work in the area. The contributors--including Lawrence Blum, John Cottingham, Julia Driver, Rosalind Hursthouse, Terence Irwin, Susan Moller Okin, Onora O'Neill, Michael Slote, Michael Stocker, and David Wiggins--cover practical virtue ethics, ancient views of the virtues, impartiality and partiality, Kant, utilitarianism, human nature, natural and artificial virtues, virtue and the good life, the vices, emotions, politics, feminism, moral education, and community.
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Rating: - A Wide-Ranging Assessment of a Variety of Theories
This book presumes a basic knowledge of aretic, consequentialist, and deontic ethics. Its focus is largely virtue ethics, but embraces a wide wraith of different ethical systems to satisfy the broadest of tastes. The authors take "vrtue" in its widest senses and comments on them from various traditions, especially Aristotle, Kant, and Mill who occupy center stage. The book also includes chapters on the virtues of Hume, moral psychology, communitarian, emotivist, and feminist perspectives, along with ... Read More
Rating: - Nice introduction to many strands of "virtue ethics"
If Roger Crisp is to be believed a revolution has occurred in the past few decades in ethics. It is a revolution in both senses of the word: a revolt against the two schools that have dominated ethical thinking for the past few centuries, Kantianism and utilitarianism, and a turning back to a much earlier ethical scheme, the virtue ethics proposed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics.
Reading this collection of essays gives credence to the quality of this revitalization of virtue ethics. I was ... Read More
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