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26 mar 2018 · What is ‘virtue’? And how can we lead ‘moral’ lives? Exploring how contemporary moral philosophy has tackled the issue of ‘character’, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to...
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18 lip 2003 · 1.1 Virtue. A virtue is an excellent trait of character. It is a disposition, well entrenched in its possessor—something that, as we say, goes all the way down, unlike a habit such as being a tea-drinker—to notice, expect, value, feel, desire, choose, act, and react in certain characteristic ways.
Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory, as well as ...
In this book Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant’s theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood.
Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics. John Bowin. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Introduction. If there was an ethical turn in Greek philosophy, it began with Socrates, who, unlike his predecessors, shunned speculation about the natural world and focused exclusively on ethics (Aristotle, Metaph. 1.6.987b1–2).
6 gru 2017 · This volume provides a representative overview of philosophical work on virtue. It is divided into seven parts: conceptualizations of virtue, historical and religious accounts, contemporary virtue ethics and theories of virtue, central concepts and issues, critical examinations, applied virtue ethics, and virtue epistemology.
Aristotle, though not the first Greek virtue ethicist, was the first to establish virtue ethics as a distinct philosophical discipline. His exposition of the subject in his Nicomachean Ethics set the terms of subsequent debate in the European and.
