Virtue and action : selected papers / Rosalind Hursthouse ; edited by Julia Annas and Jeremy Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hursthouse, Rosalind, author.

Contributor:

Annas, Julia, editor.

Reid, Jeremy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Act (Philosophy).

Virtue.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This volume brings together a selection of eminent philosopher Rosalind Hursthouse's influential essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Virtue Ethics and Right Action

Naturalism and Eudaimonism

Justice and Politics

Part I. Aristotle and Ancient Virtue Ethics

1. The Central Doctrine of the Mean

1. The Doctrine of the Mean outside Aristotle's Ethical Works

2. The 'Mean' in Action and Feeling

3. The Central Doctrine of the Mean

4. Virtue as a Mean Disposition and the Moral Education of the Passions

2. Practical Wisdom: A Mundane Account

1. Introduction

2. Mistakes about Moral Dilemmas

3. More Mistakes, and Wickedness

4. Experience and Good Deliberation (euboulia)

5. Conclusion

3. What Does the Aristotelian Phronimos Know?

1. Anti-Codifiability: Two Red Herrings

2. Anti-Codifiability: The Phronimos's Special Knowledge

3. Beyond Anti-Codifiability

4. Phronēsis and Perception

4. Aristotle for Women Who Love Too Much

5. Excessiveness and Our Natural Development

1. The Stoics' Monistic Psychology

2. Including Children

3. Our Natural Development

4. Literal Excessiveness as Being Irrational/Out of Control

5. Literal Excessiveness as Childishness

6. Responsiveness to Reasons

7. Ethically Loaded Excessiveness

Part II. Normative Virtue Ethics

6. Virtue Theory and Abortion

1. Virtue Theory

2. Abortion

3. Conclusion

7. Are the Virtues the Proper Starting Point for Morality?

1. Against the Rawlsian Framework

2. The Aristotelian Concept of Virtue

3. Right Action

8. Discussing Dilemmas

9. Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing

2. Dilemmas

3. Getting through Dilemmas Virtuously

4. Lawyers' Dilemmas

10. Applying Virtue Ethics to Our Treatment of the Other Animals

1. Against Moral Status

2. Vegetarianism

3. Experiments on the Other Animals.

4. Human-Centredness

11. Environmental Virtue Ethics

1. Old Virtues and Vices

2. Still Human-Centred?

3. One New Virtue

4. Another New Virtue

5. What to Do?

Part III. Action Theory, Politics, and Naturalism

12. Virtuous Action

13. Arational Actions

14. Hume on Justice

2. Hume on Private Property

3. Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke, and Hume on Property

4. Hume on Natural Law and Natural Rights

15. After Hume's Justice

16. The Good and Bad Family

1. Stage-Setting

2. The Concept of 'Family'

3. The Good Family

4. The Good Family and Political Theory

17. On the Grounding of the Virtues in Human Nature

18. Human Nature and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

1. Two Failing Objections

2. Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism Is Not Foundationalist

3. Two Failing but Thought-Provoking Objections

4. Conclusion

19. The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical Naturalism

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hursthouse, Rosalind Virtue and Action

ISBN:

0-19-191637-4

0-19-264897-7

0-19-264898-5