Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics

by Timothy Chappell (Editor)

Overview

After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound even when subterranean. Typical members of our society can often be made to see that their moral thought and action are, in crucial ways, unwittingly Aristotelian. No one in contemporary philosophical ethics can afford to ignore Aristotle. Much of the finest work in recent moral philosophy has been overtly and professedly Aristotelian in inspiration. And many writers who would officially distance themselves from Aristotle and his contemporary followers are nonetheless indebted to him, sometimes in ways that they do not realise. Values and Virtues provides a platform for some notable writers in the area to present and discuss their new ideas about Aristotelian ethics in a way that will advance the academic debate and engage the interest of a broad range of philosophical readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191608780
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/16/2006
Series:	Mind Association Occasional Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Timothy Chappell
1. Modern virtue ethics, Christopher Coope
2. The admirable life and the desirable life, Linda Zagzebski
3. Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime, Fred Miller
4. The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence, Antony Duff
5. Habituation as mimêsis, Hallvard Fossheim
6. Moral incompetence, Adam Morton
7. The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom, Timothy Chappell
8. Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics, Paul Russell
9. Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist?, Christine Swanton
10. Manners, morals, and practical wisdom, Karen Stohr
11. The hardboiled detective as moralist, Sandrine Berges
12. "Like the Bloom on Youths": How pleasure completes our lives, Johan Braennmark
13. Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth, Theodore Scaltsas
14. Three dogmas of desire, Talbot Brewer