Target-centred virtue ethics / Christine Swanton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swanton, Christine, 1947- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtue.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 351 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Christine Swanton presents a new target centred virtue ethics, which is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways. She rejects the 'natural goodness' metaphysics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics in favour of a 'hermeneutic ontology' of ethics, and she offers a new target centred framework for assessing rightness of acts.

Contents:

Introduction: The Basic View

(A) Thick Concept Centralism (TCC)

(B) The Centrality of Virtuousness (CV)

(C) Target Centredness (TC)

PART I Metaphysics

1: A New Metaphysics for Virtue Ethics

(i) Introduction: The Basic Theses

(ii) Intentional Access: The Logos

(iii) The Logos: Its Nature

(iv) Plurality of the Logoi

(v) Two-way Ontological Dependence

(vi) Response Dependence

(vii) The Logos of Ethics and Naturalism

(viii) Critique of the Logos

(ix) Conclusion

2: The Worldhood of Ethics

(i) Introduction

(ii) The Nature of Ethical Facts

(iii) The Domain of the Ethical

(iv) Ethical Orientation

(v) The Thick Concepts and Evaluative Point

(vi) The Centrality of Virtuousness

(vii) Conclusion

3: The Concealment of Ethics

(ii) Four Ways of Covering up

(iii) Relation between the Logoi

(iv) The Fundamental Integrating Logos: The Logos of Dwelling

4: Thick Concept Centralism and Objectivity

(ii) Thick Concepts as Prototype Concepts

Insider Thesis

(iii) Objectivity and Perspectivism

(iv) The Slave Revolt in Ethics

(v) Williams´ Critique

(vi) Nietzsche, Williams, and Objectivity in Ethics

(vii) The Virtue of Objectivity

(viii) Conclusion

PART II Nature

5: Eudaimonistic versus Target Centred Virtue Ethics

(i) What is Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics?

(ii) Indirection and Target Centred Virtue Ethics

(1) Narcissism objection

(2) Self-effacing objection

(3) Disconnect objection

(iii) Target Centred Virtue Ethics: `Everywhere Direct´

(iv) Target Centred Virtue Ethics and Right Action

(v) Overall Virtuousness

Schema of Overall Rightness (1)

Unity of Targets Thesis (1).

Unity of Targets Thesis (2)

Schema of Overall Rightness (2)

6: Basic Virtue and Differentiated Virtue

(ii) Taking Ethical Differentiation Seriously

(iii) Basic and Differentiated Virtue

(iv) Narrative Differentiation

(a) Global narrative virtues

(b) Specific narrative virtues

(v) Historical Differentiation

(vi) Burdened Differentiation

The courage of the freedom fighter

The compassion of the heroic aid worker

The creativity of the artist

(vii) Cultural Differentiation

7: Target Centred Virtue Ethics and Role Ethics

(ii) The `Standard Conception' of the Lawyer's Role

(iii) Orthodox Virtue Ethics and Role Ethics

Simple Orthodox Virtue Ethics

Complex Orthodox Virtue Ethics

(iv) Target Centred Virtue Ethics Applied to Roles

(v) Relations between Reasons of Basic Virtue and Reasons of Role-differentiated Virtue

1. Specification

2. Overriding

3. Undercutting by Exclusion

4. Context-undermining

(vi) Role-Differentiated Virtue and Immorality

8: Developmental Virtue Ethics

(i) Developmentalism

(ii) Developmentalism, Natural Goodness, and Flourishing

(iii) Virtue and Development

(iv) The Roots of Virtue and Prosocial Behaviour

(v) Virtue in Children

(vi) Mature Virtue

9: Pluralistic Virtue Ethics

(i) Plural Grounds of Virtue

(ii) Bases of Ethical Response

(iii) The Unity of the Virtues

The Unity of the Virtues Thesis

The Impossibility of Perfection Thesis

The Integration of Virtue Thesis

(iv) Plurality in a Virtue-Centred Conception of Practical Rationality

(v) Conclusion

PART III Application

10: Has Virtue Ethics Sold Out?

(ii) What Is Anscombe Claiming?

(iii) The Notion of the Moral.

(iv) Virtue Ethical Accounts of Rightness and the Deontic

(v) Rightness and Vagueness

(vi) Conclusion

11: A Particularist but Codifiable Virtue Ethics

(ii) Codifiability and Virtue Rules

(iii) V-rules and Default Reasons

(iv) Default Reasons and Particularism

(v) Virtue Rules and Decisive Moral Principles

(vi) The Burden of Proof

12: The Wrong Logos: Paradoxes of Practical Reason

(i) Access Through the Wrong Logos

(ii) Supererogation

(iii) The Paradox of Underdetermination

(iv) The `It Makes no Difference´ Paradox

13: An Epistemology for Target Centred Virtue Ethics

(i) Introduction: The Knowledge Foundation

(ii) Qualified Agent Virtue Ethical Epistemology

(iii) Epistemic Virtue

(iv) Target Centred Virtue Ethical Epistemology

(v) Target Centred Virtue Ethical Epistemology and Justification

(vi) A Problem

(vii) Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780192606143

019260614X

9780191893629

0191893625

9780192606136

0192606131

OCLC:

1224019473