Virtue ethics : a pluralistic view /
Swanton, Christine, 1947-
Virtue ethics : a pluralistic view / Christine Swanton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages)
Originally published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness ofethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues. Swanton's approach is distinctive in departing in siginificant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions ofrightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.
9780191531125 (electronic bk.) 019153112X (electronic bk.) 1423788966 (electronic bk.) 9781423788966 (electronic bk.) 0199278474 9780199278473 (Perfect)
9780199278473
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Virtue.
Ethics.
Virtues.
Vertus.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
SELF-HELP--Personal Growth--Happiness.
Ethics.
Virtue.
Electronic books.
BJ1531 / .S93 2005eb
179.9
Virtue ethics : a pluralistic view / Christine Swanton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages)
Originally published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness ofethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues. Swanton's approach is distinctive in departing in siginificant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions ofrightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.
9780191531125 (electronic bk.) 019153112X (electronic bk.) 1423788966 (electronic bk.) 9781423788966 (electronic bk.) 0199278474 9780199278473 (Perfect)
9780199278473
00020142
Virtue.
Ethics.
Virtues.
Vertus.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
SELF-HELP--Personal Growth--Happiness.
Ethics.
Virtue.
Electronic books.
BJ1531 / .S93 2005eb
179.9