Before Virtue - Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics

✍ Scribed by Jonathan J. Sanford

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Jonathan Sanford finds that despite the common origins of contemporary virtue ethics in Anscombe, the literature varies widely not just in its scope but in its basic commitments. What exactly is contemporary virtue ethics? In Before Virtue, Sanford develops strategies for describing contemporary virtue ethics accurately. He then assesses contemporary virtue approaches by the Anscombean dual standard which inspired them: the degree to which they avoid the pitfalls of modern moral philosophy and the extent to which they exemplify a successful recovery of an Aristotelian approach to ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface - pp. ix-xii

Introduction - pp. 1-20

Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Virtue Ethics - pp. 21-50
Origins of Contemporary Virtue Ethics - pp. 51-80
All Anscombe's Children? The Varieties of Contemporary Virtue Ethics - pp. 81-113
Contemporary Virtue Ethics and Its Aspirations - pp. 114-142
Aristotle's Ethics and Contemporary Virtue Ethics - pp. 143-182
Anthropology in Aristotelian Ethics: Every Virtue Needs a Home - pp. 183-204
Teleology in Artisotelian Ethics: Every Virtue Needs a Goal - pp. 205-226
Natural Law in Artistotelian Ethics: Every Virtuous Action Needs Its Reason - pp. 227-254
Virtue Ethics, After and Before - pp. 255-258

Bibliography - pp. 259-274

Index - pp. 275-281

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