How should one live? : essays on the virtues / edited by Roger Crisp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crisp, Roger, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtues.

Virtue.

Ethics.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 263 pages)

Other Title:

Essays on the virtues

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book represents the first general survey of the revival of interest in the virtues. Over the last 40 years there has been a remarkable interest in the topic. This volume is coloured by the increasing voices of feminism and community.

Contents:

Modern moral philosophy and the virtues / Roger Crisp

Normative virtue ethics / Rosalind Hursthouse

Virtues: theory and common sense in greek philosophy / T.H. Irwin

Partiality and the virtues / John Cottingham

Kant's virtues / Onora O'Neill

Virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and symmetry / Michael Slote

Virtues and human nature / Julia Driver

Natural and artificial virtues: a vindication of Hume's scheme / David Wiggins

Does moral virtue constitute a benefit to the agent? / Brad Hooker

Deadly vices? / Gabriele Taylor

How emotions reveal value and help cure the schizophrenia of modern ethical theories / Michael Stocker

MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues / Andrew Mason

Feminism, moral development, and the virtues / Susan Moller Okin

Community and virtue / Lawrence Blum.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-253) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-159725-2

1-281-98095-1

9786611980955

0-19-151958-8

OCLC:

610851049