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Author : Philippa Foot
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520043961
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy written by Philippa Foot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippa Foot
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ISBN 13 : 9780191597435
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy written by Philippa Foot and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Timpe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019964554X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virtues and Their Vices written by Kevin Timpe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.
Author : Peter Simpson
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813209937
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vices, Virtues, and Consequences written by Peter Simpson and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vices, Virtues, and Consequences offers a broad study of the basic and universal issues in ethics and politics, the issues of what the human good is and how to attain it and avoid its opposite. These questions have long been debated and are no less debated today. However, according to author Peter Phillips Simpson, within the mainstream of Anglo-American modern philosophy they have been debated too narrowly. This narrowness is one of our modern vices, and it does much to encourage other vices, in particular that of despair of universal and objective reason. The essays in this collection not only attack these vices, but also attempt to replace them with the contrary virtues. The volume begins with an overview of modern Anglo-American moral philosophy and critiques the work of contemporary thinkers--specifically Alasdair MacIntyre and John Rawls--and the work of historical thinkers such as Machiavelli, Kant, and Hobbes. The author then explores ancient and medieval sources, and applies their concepts to discussions of modern problems. The book closes with chapters that discuss the direct consequences of contemporary vices in both thought and action, in particular the vice of failing to educate the morals of citizens. Simpson rejects the contemporary liberal dogma that political authority should not be involved in the moral education of citizens. Violence in Northern Ireland and the crime of abortion are among the issues discussed. Peter Phillips Simpson is professor of philosophy and classics at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is the author of numerous articles and books including The Politics of Aristotle, A Philosophical Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle, and Karol Wojtyla. "An important and significant contribution to the field. Simpson presents classical sources with a freshness and thoroughness not often seen."--Prof. John Hittinger, U.S. Air Force Academy "Simpson's application of his view to the current crisis in liberal culture is clear, consistent, and timely."--Prof. Nicholas Capaldi, University of Tulsa "It is a rare pleasure to read a book that combines the elegance and rigour of the best of analytic philosophy with the imaginative breadth and radical seriousness of some of its rivals." -- Margaret Atkins, Heythrop Journal
Author : Philippa Foot
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199252866
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy written by Philippa Foot and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Foot stands out among contemporary ethical theorists because of her conviction that virtues and vices are more central ethical notions than rights, duties, justice, or consequences - the primary focus of most other contemporary theorists. This volume brings together a dozen essays publishedbetween 1957 and 1977, and includes two new ones as well. In the first, Foot argues explicitly for an ethic of virtue, and in the next five discusses abortion, euthanasia, free will/determination, and the ethics of Hume and Nietzsche. The final eight essays chart her growing disenchantment withemotivism and prescriptivism and their account of moral arguments. All the essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue.... Foot's style is straightforward and readable, her arguments subtle, ingenious, and some of them important.' Choice'All in all, this collection of essays provides much to whet the moral philosopher's appetite.' International Philosophical Quarterly
Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519588
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book How Should One Live? written by Roger Crisp and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last four decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which lay at the heart of ancient and medieval moral philosophy. This collection is the first general survey of this revival, containing specially commissioned articles on topics central to virtue ethics and virtue theory, written by a distinguished international team of philosophers. It represents the state of the art in this subject, and will set the agenda for future work. Topics covered in How Should One Live? include: practical virtue ethics; ancient views of the virtues; impartiality and partiality; Kant and the virtues; utilitarianism and the virtues; the virtues and human nature; natural and artificial virtues; virtue and the good life; the vices; virtue and the emotions; virtue and politics; feminism, moral education, and the virtues; and virtue and community.
Author : Rosalind Hursthouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virtues and Reasons written by Rosalind Hursthouse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa Foot is one of the most original and widely respected philosophers of our time; her work has exerted a lasting influence on the development of moral philosophy. In tribute to her, twelve leading philosophers from both sides of the Atlantic have contributed essays exploring the various topics in moral philosophy to which she has made a distinctive contribution--virtue ethics, naturalism, non-cognitivism, relativism, categorical requirements, and the role of rationality in morality.
Author : Gilbert Harman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198238041
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy written by Gilbert Harman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this selection of Gilbert Harman's shorter writings in moral philosophy, the essays are divided into four sections, focusing on moral relativism, values and valuing, character traits and virtue ethics, and ways of explaining aspects of morality.
Author : Philippa Foot
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191530980
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moral Dilemmas written by Philippa Foot and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches that have dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, expressed in special kinds of judgement and a special 'moral' kind of language. Instead she portrays thoughts about the goodness of human will and action as a particular case of the evaluation of other operations of human beings, and indeed of all living things. Among other topics, she discusses the nature of moral judgement, practical rationality, and the conflict of virtue with desire and self-interest. Moral Dilemmas, alongside Professor Foot's other two books, completes the summation of her distinctive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century moral philosophy.
Author : David Wiggins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198237198
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Needs, Values, Truth written by David Wiggins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author ranges between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language, looking at questions relating to meaning, truth and objectivity in judgements of value. For this third edition he has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive summation of his work in this area.
