Morals from Motives

ISBN-13: 9780195138375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str.

Michael A. Slote

Opis

Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Recenzje

Michael Slote's book Morals from Motives fosters an admirable development in modern virtue ethics: the sense that virtue ethics is a genus (like consequentialism) having several species ... Morals from Motives is a fine example of a modern virtue ethics derived from the moral 'sentimentalism' of Hutcheson and Hume, as well as James Martineau ... Slote succeeds rather well in maintaining a clear focus throughout the book.