书名: Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View
作者: Christine Swanton (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (May 20, 2005)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0199278474
ISBN-13: 978-0199278473
电子书格式：DOC (Word 文档)
Book Description
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 of ethics, 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 of rightness. 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.
Review
`Review from previous edition With Christine Swanton's new book, contemporary virtue ethics takes a confident step out of the philosophical nursery ... no one interested in the health and prospects of moral philosophy should ignore this excellent book.' --Samantha Vice, Times Literary Supplement
`Swanton's pluralism is a welcome and important contribution ... Her account is complex and provocative' --George Harris, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
About the Author
Christine Swanton is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland.
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作者: Christine Swanton (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (May 20, 2005)
语言：English
ISBN-10: 0199278474
ISBN-13: 978-0199278473
电子书格式：DOC (Word 文档)
Book Description
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 of ethics, 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 of rightness. 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.
Review
`Review from previous edition With Christine Swanton's new book, contemporary virtue ethics takes a confident step out of the philosophical nursery ... no one interested in the health and prospects of moral philosophy should ignore this excellent book.' --Samantha Vice, Times Literary Supplement
`Swanton's pluralism is a welcome and important contribution ... Her account is complex and provocative' --George Harris, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
About the Author
Christine Swanton is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland.
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