From Morality to Virtue

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History, Criticism, & Surveys, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Cover of the book From Morality to Virtue by Michael Slote, Oxford University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Michael Slote ISBN: 9780190208103
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: May 4, 1995
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Michael Slote
ISBN: 9780190208103
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: May 4, 1995
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, it places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual and her well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, it places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual and her well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.

More books from Oxford University Press

Cover of the book Marital Rape by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Becoming Americans in Paris by Michael Slote
Cover of the book The Owner's Manual to the Voice by Michael Slote
Cover of the book John Adams by Michael Slote
Cover of the book The Vulgar Tongue by Michael Slote
Cover of the book The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Intersecting Pathways by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Martin Heidegger: Early Works: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Michael Slote
Cover of the book From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen by Michael Slote
Cover of the book How to Do Things with History by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Embodiment by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Dancing Revelations by Michael Slote
Cover of the book Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children by Michael Slote
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy