Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel: Escaping the Malign Influence of Kant

ISBN-13: 9781138266339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 222 str.

Gary Pendlebury

Opis

Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human beings actually think and conduct themselves. Pendlebury, instead, suggests a 'Virtue Ethics' inspired by Hegel's and Aristotle's accounts of action as a corrective to this trend, showing that moral activity is historically and socially based and must address the formed character of individual agents.

Recenzje

’Throwing light on significant elements of Hegel's ethics which have until recently been poorly understood, Pendlebury's book is a welcome addition to the literature on desire and agency. Not only students of Aristotle and Hegel but also anyone interested in these issues will find much that is valuable in the book.’ Ethics

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part One Hegel on Philosophy, Ethics and Will: Modern philosophy and ethics; Ethics and the individual: law, reason and freedom; Will, ethics and action. Part Two Aristotle and Hegel on the Conditions of Action: Reason and desire in character and action; Judgement, conscience and weakness of will; Agency, choice and self-sufficiency; Eudaimonia and action. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dr Gary Pendlebury is Associate Lecturer of Philosophy for the Open University in the East Midlands, UK.