Virtue ethics : a contemporary introduction

✍ Scribed by Van Zyl, Liezl L.

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Series: Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume provides a clear and accessible overview of central concepts, positions, and arguments in virtue ethics today. While it focuses primarily on Aristotelian virtue ethics, it also includes discussion of alternative forms of virtue ethics (sentimentalism and pluralism) and competing normative theoretics (consequentialism and deontology).

✦ Table of Contents

Virtue ethics --
Virtue --
Virtue and happiness --
Virtuous motives --
Practical wisdom --
Virtue and right action --
applying virtue ethics --
Virtue-ethical particularism --
The situationist critique --
Virtue and environmental ethics.

✦ Subjects

Virtue;Ethics

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