Virtue Ethics

✍ Scribed by Roger Crisp, Michael Slote

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Series: Oxford Readings in Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together much of the most influential work undertaken in the field of virtue ethics over the last four decades. The ethics of virtue predominated in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian approaches to morality. Divided into four sections, the collection includes articles critical of other traditions; early attempts to offer a positive vision of virtue ethics; some later criticisms of the revival of virtue ethics; and, finally, some recent, more theoretically ambitious essays in virtue ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

1. An Ancient Question......Page 4
   2. About This Book......Page 6
   3. Virtue Ethics......Page 7
   4. The Good of the Agent......Page 9
   5. The Demandingness of Morality......Page 11
   6. Universality, Tradition, and Practice......Page 14
   8. Practical Reason, Moral Knowledge and Moral Education......Page 15
   2 Normative Virtue Ethics......Page 17
   1. Right Action......Page 18
   2. Moral Rules......Page 21
   3. The Conflict Problem......Page 23
   4. Dilemmas and Normative Theory......Page 25
   1. Common Sense......Page 29
   2. The Superordinate Status of Virtue......Page 31
   3. Virtue and Happiness......Page 32
   4. Eudaemonism and the Virtues......Page 33
   5. The Relation of Virtue to Happiness......Page 34
   6. Virtues, Actions, and Motives......Page 35
   7. Virtue and Knowledge......Page 38
   8. The Fine and the Good......Page 40
   9. The Unity and Reciprocity of the Virtues......Page 41
   10. Virtues and the Will......Page 42
   4 Partiality and the Virtues......Page 43
   1. Aristotelian Partiality......Page 45
   2. The Ethical Credentials of Virtue Theory......Page 49
   3. The Autocentric Perspective......Page 52
   5 Kant's Virtues......Page 57
   1. General Sketch: Some Reminders from Kant's Grundlegung......Page 58
   2. Kant's Classification of Duties in the Tugendlehre......Page 61
   3. Inner and Outer Legislation......Page 62
   4. Misanthropy, Opacity, and Self-Knowledge......Page 65
   5. Introspection, Ascription, and Prescription......Page 66
   6 Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Symmetry......Page 71
   I......Page 72
   II......Page 74
   III......Page 76
   7 The Virtues and Human Nature......Page 80
   1. The Virtues as Correctives......Page 81
   2. Dubious Virtue Psychology......Page 82
   3. Good Intentions......Page 84
   4. A Consequentialist Theory of Virtue......Page 88
   5. Counting Consequences......Page 90
   6. Psychology versus Motive......Page 91
   8 Natural and Artificial Virtues: A Vindication of Hume's Scheme......Page 93
   1. Introduction......Page 101
   2. Hedonism and Desire-Fulfilment Theory......Page 102
   3. The List Theory of Well-Being......Page 103
   4. Three Arguments for Thinking That Virtue Constitutes a Benefit to the Agent......Page 105
   5. The Sympathy Test......Page 106
   10 Deadly Vices?......Page 111
   II......Page 114
   III......Page 119
   IV......Page 121
   11 How Emotions Reveal Value and Help Cure the Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories......Page 123
   1. Some Epistemological Connections Between Emotions and Value......Page 124
   2. Emotions Have Evaluative Importance by Being Valuable......Page 127
   3. How Emotions Help With Evaluative Knowledge......Page 131
   4. How Emotions Help Justify Evaluative Knowledge......Page 135
   1. MacIntyre's Account of the Virtues......Page 137
   2. Some Problems With MacIntyre's Account......Page 140
   3. Liberal Accounts of the Virtues......Page 142
   4. Work, Practices, and the Market......Page 144
   5. What Institutions Would Respect the Virtues?......Page 148
   1. The Androcentrism and Élitism of the Virtues......Page 150
   2. The Education of a Virtuous Character......Page 157
   3. Ethics of Justice, Ethics of Care: Is Virtue Ethics ‘Women's Moral Theory’?......Page 159
   4. Towards a Feminist Theory of the Virtues?......Page 161
   I......Page 163
   II......Page 166
   III......Page 171
   IV......Page 173
   Books......Page 177
   Articles......Page 178