Rethinking Virtue Ethics

ISBN-13: 9789400721920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 186 str.

Michael Winter

Opis

Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a fresh model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm. This book argues that, contrary to what many contemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with the idea that at least some action-guiding moral principles are true unconditionally, and that a justification for these principles can be grounded in fundamental concepts within Aristotle s theory. §This unique interpretation of virtue ethics has implications for several areas including: recent discussions of the virtues in social psychology, issues about altruism and egoism, questions are inalienable rights, and debates about moral particularism, moral realism, and moral epistemology.

Spis treści

Introduction

1.      Moral Realism and Virtue Ethics

2.      A Sketch of an Aristotelian Science of Ethics

3.      How Are Ethical Principles Known?

4.      Some Challenges to the Deductive Model  

Appendix: Can Unconditional Moral Principles be Justified?

Blurb

Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm. This book argues that, contrary to what many contemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with at least some action-guiding moral principles being true unconditionally, and that a justification for general moral principles can be grounded in fundamental concepts within Aristotle’s theory. An analysis of ethical propositions that hold for the most part is proposed that fits well within the deductive paradigm developed. 

          This unique interpretation of virtue ethics has implications for recent discussions of the virtues in social psychology, issues about how fundamental moral principles are known, questions about the justification of inalienable rights, debates about moral particularism and generalism, and discussions of moral realism and anti-realism.