From morality to virtue / Michael Slote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slote, Michael, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Common sense.

Ethics.

Utilitarianism.

Virtue.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Ethics.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 267 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some have asked for more attention to the virtues within the compass of familiar underlying approaches to morality like utilitarianism and Kantian ethics. However, others have argued that a freestanding and systematic form of virtue ethics would have advantages over other large-scale approaches. This work attempts the latter approach.

Contents:

Kantian, utilitarian, and common-sense ethics : Some advantages of virtue ethics

Morality and rationality

Incoherence in Kantian and common-sense moral thinking

Utilitarianism. Virtue ethics : Rudiments of virtue ethics

Virtue rules

Virtue-ethical luck

Virtue, self, and other

Virtue in friends and citizens

Virtue ethics, imperatives, and the deontic. Between virtue ethics and utilitarianism : Reduction vs. elimination

Two kinds of intrinsic goodness

Reduction vs. elevation. Reasons for preferring virtue ethics : The main issue between utilitarianism and virtue ethics

Utilitarian underdetermination

Forms of pluralism

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-020810-4

0-19-983368-0

9786610527793

1-280-52779-X

0-19-802389-8

1-4237-6512-5

OCLC:

191826530