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Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction de Liezl Van Zyl

Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

Autor Liezl Van Zyl
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2018
This volume provides a clear and accessible overview of central concepts, positions, and arguments in virtue ethics today. While it focuses primarily on Aristotelian virtue ethics, it also includes discussion of alternative forms of virtue ethics (sentimentalism and pluralism) and competing normative theories (consequentialism and deontology).
The first six chapters are organized around central questions in normative ethics that are of particular concern to virtue ethicists and their critics:
  • What is virtue ethics?
  • What makes a trait a virtue?
  • Is there a link between virtue and happiness?
  • What is involved in being well-motivated?
  • What is practical wisdom?
  • What makes an action right?
The last four chapters focus on important challenges or objections to virtue ethics:
  • Can virtue ethics be applied to particular moral problems?
  • Does virtue ethics ultimately rely on moral principles?
  • Can it withstand the situationist critique?
  • What are the prospects for an environmental virtue ethics?

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415836166
ISBN-10: 0415836166
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; Acknowledgements; Plan of the Book;  1. Virtue Ethics  2. Virtue  3. Virtue and Happiness  4. Virtuous Motives  5. Practical Wisdom  6. Virtue and Right Action  7. Applying Virtue Ethics  8. Virtue-ethical Particularism  9. The Situationist Critique  10. Virtue and Environmental Ethics; Bibliography; Index

Notă biografică

Liezl van Zyl is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She works primarily in ethics, in particular virtue ethics and applied ethics.

Recenzii

"Highly recommended as both a textbook and a research monograph, Van Zyl's Virtue Ethics is at once a thorough, up-to-date, and even-handed survey of the current state of the art and an argumentative contribution to the field. Her book shows not just what virtue ethics as a broad normative theory is, but also what it could become via application to various thorny questions and contexts. Enlightening and edifying: I can't think of a better introduction!"
Mark Alfano, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology and Professor at Australian Catholic University
"In this admirably clear and comprehensive introduction, Van Zyl masterfully articulates and evaluates the rationales underlying the most prominent forms of contemporary virtue ethics. While fully accessible to beginners, this book will also be appreciated by those who have long been engaged in ethical theory."
Nicholas Ryan Smith, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA

Descriere

Virtue Ethics Today: A Contemporary Introduction presents readers with an engaging overview of contemporary problems, positions and arguments in this rapidly growing field. It includes debates between virtue ethicists and their critics, as well as debates among virtue ethicists themselves. Each chapter begins with a discussion of a central topic in normative ethics, one that students already will have encountered in an introductory course in moral philosophy or applied ethics. The choice of questions and the discussions themselves challenge the reader to think beyond the ways normative ethics usually operates, and thus clearly demonstrates what is distinctive about virtue ethics.