How should one live? : essays on the virtues
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How should one live? : essays on the virtues
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references
"1st issued in paperback 1998" -- t.p. verso
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The last four decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which lay at the heart of ancient and medieval moral philosophy. This collection is the first general survey of this revival, containing specially commissioned articles on topics central to virtue ethics and virtue theory, written by a distinguished international team of philosophers. It represents the state of the art in this subject, and will set the agenda for future work.
Topics covered in How Should One Live? include: practical virtue ethics; ancient views of the virtues; impartiality and partiality; Kant and the virtues; utilitarianism and the virtues; the virtues and human nature; natural and artificial virtues; virtue and the good life; the vices; virtue and the emotions; virtue and politics; feminism, moral education, and the virtues; and virtue and community.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction. Modern moral philosophy and the virtues
- 2. Practical Ethics. Normative virtue ethics
- 3. Ancient Views. The virtues: theory and common sense in Greek philosophy
- 4. Impartiality and Partiality. Partiality and the virtues
- 5. Kant. Kant's virtues
- 7. Human Nature. The virtues and human nature
- 8. Natural and Artificial Virtues. A vindication of Hume's scheme
- 9. Virtues and the Good. Does moral virtue constitute a benefit to the agent?
- 10. Vices. Deadly vices?
- 11. Emotions. How emotions reveal value and help cure the schizophrenia of modern ethical theories
- 12. Politics. MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues
- 13. Feminism and Moral Education. Feminism, moral development, and the virtues
- 14. Community. Community and virtue
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