Morals from motives

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Morals from motives

Michael Slote

Oxford University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780195138375

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Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by 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 and also (in its own terms) of social justice, and the book 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.

Table of Contents

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
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: pbk ISBN 9780195170207

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: MORALITY AND JUSTICE
  • PART II: PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOOD

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