The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics : On Nature and Normativity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Jessy, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Summary:

The re-emergence of virtue ethics in the 20th century revolutionized moral philosophy. This is the first book-length introduction to elaborate and defend its complex philosophical framework, natural normativity.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Part: The Nature of Morality

1 Natural Normativity: An Initial Sketch

2 Moral Defect in Humans

3 Apprehending the Human Form of Practical Reason: On the Transcendental Option for Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism

4 Virtue, Absolute Prohibitions, and Some Normative Consequences for Sexuality, Gender, and Standardly "Able" Bodies

Part II Part: The Rationality of Moral Action

5 Why Be Moral? A Natural Soundness Theory of Practical Rationality

6 The Practicality of Natural Norms

Part III Part: Answering the Critics

7 Three Illuminating Objections

8 What about the "Standard" Aristotelian View? A Case Study

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-41282-1

1-350-41281-3

9781350412811

OCLC:

1546961326