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Virtue Ethics

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Format: Softcover Book
Size: 5.5″ x 8.5″ (13.97 x 21.59 cm)
Paper: Black & White on White paper
Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 978-1539977858
ISBN-10: 1539977854
BISAC: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Virtue Ethics is the ethics of character and character formation and for this reason is sometimes described as agent-centred to contrast it with rule-based ethical theories. The agent here is the person who is choosing to pursue some end and doing so for good reasons. So a virtue is usually defined as either a disposition of character or an inclination of character, the first definition highlighting the habitual nature of the virtues, and the second, the link between virtue and will.Full

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Table of contents 1

Introduction

  • The Nature of Virtue Ethics
  • Elizabeth Anscombe

Aristotelean Virtue Ethics

  • What is a virtue?
  • Aristotelean metaphysics
  • Phronesis Is the key
  • Applying the virtues
  • A judgement point between two vices
  • The Cardinal Virtues
  • The issue of natural classes
  • Aquinas’ account of the virtues
  • Natural and Infused Virtue
  • The greatest of all is love

MacIntyre’s Virtue Ethics

  • Worldviews
  • MacIntyre’s Critique of Modern Culture
  • The rejection of utilitarian naturalism
  • MacIntyre’s postmodern view
  • Polis versus social history and tradition
  • The Golden Mean
  • Begging some questions

Philippa Foot’s Virtue Ethics

  • Virtues as objective states
  • Virtues as correctives
  • Vice as a defect
  • The Sudentenland boy and practical rationality

Table of contents 2

Christian Virtue Ethics

  • The revolution in ethics
  • Christian Blessedness
  • Euthyphro’s dilemma
  • The Moral discipline of a renewed mind
  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Christian love
  • The Parable of the Sower and Christian faith
  • The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Christian hope
  • Conclusions

Applied Virtue Ethics

  • Abortion and the vice of callousness
  • Pre-marital sex and the virtue of chastity
  • Environmental virtue

Evaluating Virtue Ethics

  • James Rachels and the incompleteness criticism
  • Gilbert Harman and unstable characters
  • Robert Wachbroit and the accusation of relativism

The Four Questions Revisited

  • DERIVATION
  • APPLYING THE GOOD
  • REALISM
  • MOTIVATION
  • Key Quotes
  • SELF-TEST 1: KEY TERMS
  • SELF-TEST 2: KEY QUESTIONS
  • FURTHER READING

Postscript