On virtue ethics / Rosalind Hursthouse.

By:

Hursthouse, Rosalind

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191519369
0191519367
9780191597756
0191597759
1281970468
9781281970466
9786611970468
6611970460

Subject(s):

Virtue
Ethics
Virtues
Ethics
Vertus
Morale
ethics (philosophy)
SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness
Ethics
Virtue
Ethiek
Deugden

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: On virtue ethics.DDC classification:

179/.9 22

LOC classification:

BJ1521 .H88 1999eb

Other classification:

08.38

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Contents:

pt. I. Action: 1. Right Action; 2. Resolvable Dilemmas; 3. Irresolvable and Tragic Dilemmas -- pt. II. Emotion and Motivation: 4. Aristotle and Kant; 5. Virtue and the Emotions; 6. The Virtuous Agent's Reasons for Action; 7. Moral Motivation -- pt. III. Rationality: 8. The Virtues Benefit their Possessor; 9. Naturalism; 10. Naturalism for Rational Animals; 11. Objectivity.

Summary: Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late 20th-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse presents an exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.

Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late 20th-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse presents an exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics.