Morals from motives / Michael Slote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slote, Michael, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtue.

Ethics.

Agent (Philosophy).

Caring--Moral and ethical aspects.

Caring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 216 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by moral sentimentalism than by influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded 'morality of caring' can offer a general account of right and wrong action.

Contents:

Part I. Morality and Justice

Section One. Agent-Based Virtue Ethics

1. Virtue Ethics

2. Objections to Agent-Basing

3. Morality as Inner Strength

4. Morality as Universal Benevolence

5. Morality as Caring and Further Aspects of Agent-Basing

Section Two. Morality and the Practical

1. Is Agent-basing Practical?

2. The Value of Conscientousness

3. Moral Conflict

Section Three. The Structure of Caring

1. Caring and Love

2. Balanced Caring

3. Balanced Caring versus Aggregative Partialism

4. Self-Concern

5. Sentimentalist Deontology

6. Caring versus the Philosophers

Section Four. The Justice of Caring

1. From the Personal to the Political

2. Social Justice

3. Laws and Their Applications

4. Conclusion

Section Five. Universal Benevolence versus Caring

1. Universal Benevolence and Universal Love

2. The Justice of Universal Benevolence

3. Humanitarianism and Religious Belief

4. Humanitarianism and Intolerance

5. The Choice between Caring and Universal Benevolence

Part II. Practical Rationality and Human Good

Section Six. The Virtue in Self-Interest

1. Unification in Utilitarianism

2. Elevation versus Reduction

3. Is Elevation Viable?

4. Aristotelian Elevationism

5. Platonic Elevationism

6. Conclusion

Section Seven. Agent-Based Practical Reason

1. Conceptions of Practical Reason

2. Agent-Based Rationality

3. Practical Reason and Self-Interest

4. The Rational Requiements of Morality

5. Conclusion

Section Eight. Extending the Approach

1. Hyper-Agent-Basing

2. General ConclusionIndex.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-020793-0

0-19-517020-2

1-280-48100-5

9786610481002

0-19-803165-3

1-4237-5811-0

OCLC:

64703754