Virtue Ethics,9780198751892

Virtue Ethics

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ISBN13: 9780198751892
ISBN10: 0198751893
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-05-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This volume brings together much of the most influential work undertaken in the field of virtue ethics over the last four decades. The ethics of virtue predominated in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian approaches to morality. Divided into four sections, the collection includes articles critical of other traditions; early attempts to offer a positive vision of virtue ethics; some later criticisms of the revival of virtue ethics; and, finally, some recent, more theoretically ambitious essays in virtue ethics.

Author Biography


Roger Crisp is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. He edited How Should One Live? Essays on the Virtues (OUP, 1996), is an associate editor of Utilitas, and is currently working on a book on J. S. Mill's Utilitarianism.
Michael Slote is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of From Morality to Virtue, and is currently collaborating with Marcia Baron and Philip Pettit on a book debating the merits of Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(25)
Roger Crisp
Michael Slote
Modern Moral Philosophy
26(19)
G.E.M. Anscombe
Morality, the Peculiar Institution
45(21)
Bernard Williams
The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories
66(13)
Michael Stocker
Moral Saints
79(20)
Susan Wolf
The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts
99(19)
Iris Murdoch
The Nature of the Virtues
118(23)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtue and Reason
141(22)
John McDowell
Virtues and Vices
163(15)
Philippa Foot
The Misfortunes of Virtue
178(23)
Jerome B. Schneewind
On Some Vices of Virtue Ethics
201(16)
Robert B. Louden
Virtue Theory and Abortion
217(22)
Rosalind Hursthouse
Agent-Based Virtue Ethics
239(24)
Michael Slote
What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?
263(15)
Annette Baier
Notes on the Contributors 278(2)
Bibliography 280(3)
Index of Names 283

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