TY  - BOOK
AU  - Annas,Julia
AU  - Crisp,Roger
AU  - Gardiner,Stephen M.
AU  - Harris,George W.
AU  - Higgins,Kathleen Marie
AU  - Irwin,T.H.
AU  - Russell,Daniel
AU  - Solomon,Robert C.
AU  - Swanton,Christine
AU  - Welchman,Jennifer
TI  - Virtue Ethics, Old and New
SN  - 9781501724275
U1  - 179/.9 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Virtue
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Virtue Ethics, Here and Now --; Part I. Historical Innovations on Foundational Issues --; 1. Virtue Ethics: What Kind of Naturalism? --; 2. Seneca's Virtuous Moral Rules --; 3. Do Virtues Conflict? Aquinas's Answer --; Part 2. A Reappraisal of Some Central Virtues --; 4. Erotic Love as a Moral Virtue --; 5. Aristotle on the Moral Relevance of Self-Respect --; Part 3. The Nature of Virtue Reconsidered --; 6. Negative Virtues: Zhuangzi's Wuwei --; 7. Virtue Ethics and Human Development: A Pragmatic Approach --; Part 4. Virtue Ethics and Its Environs --; 8. Hume on Virtue, Utility and Morality --; 9. Nietzschean Virtue Ethics --; 10. The Virtues, Perfectionist Goods, and Pessimism --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle and nurturing, allowing it time to flourish before coming to any definitive verdict on its merits. However, it is hard to deny that modern-day virtue ethics is part of a long, sophisticated and fairly continuous tradition. Not only does the approach have origins almost as ancient as philosophy itself, but its history also includes extensive work by such philosophical luminaries as (at least) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, and (perhaps) Hume and Nietzsche. And this suggests that we should already be in a good position to assess its appeal."—from the IntroductionIn Virtue Ethics, Old and New, ten philosophers seek to enrich the contemporary understanding and development of virtue ethics through a detailed examination of some key contributions from its past. Their essays demonstrate the continuing relevance of the history of moral philosophy to contemporary debates
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724275
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