Moral Virtue And Nature
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| Author | : Stephen R. Brown |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2008-04-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1441146474 |
What make someone a good human being? Is there an objective answer to this question, an answer that can be given in naturalistic terms? For ages philosophers have attempted to develop some sort of naturalistic ethics. Against ethical naturalism, however, notable philosophers have contended that such projects are impossible, due to the existence of some sort of 'gap' between facts and values. Others have suggested that teleology, upon which many forms of ethical naturalism depend, is an outdated metaphysical concept. This book argues that a good human being is one who has those traits the possession of which enables someone to achieve those ends natural to beings like us. Thus, the answer to the question of what makes a good human being is given in terms both objective and naturalistic. The author shows that neither 'is-ought' gaps, nor objections concerning teleology pose insurmountable problems for naturalistic virtue ethics. This work is a much needed contribution to the ongoing debate about ethical theory and ethical virtue.
| Author | : Devin Henry |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2015-05-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107010365 |
Explores the extent to which Aristotle's ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his 'scientific' works.
| Author | : Paula Gottlieb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2009-04-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 052176176X |
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
| Author | : J. Budziszewski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2017-05-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107165784 |
This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.
| Author | : Aristotle |
| Publisher | : SDE Classics |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
| Author | : T. C. Kline |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780872205222 |
Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work of his two predecessors, he wrote complete essays in which he defends his own interpretation of the Confucian position and attacks the positions of others. Within the early Chinese tradition, Xunzi's writings are arguably the most sophisticated and philosophically developed. This richness of philosophical content has led to a lively discussion of his philosophy among contemporary scholars. This volume collects some of the most accessible and important contemporary essays on the thought of Xunzi, with an Introduction that provides historical background, philosophical context, and relates each of the selections to Xunzi's philosophy as a whole and to the themes of virtue, nature, and moral agency. These themes are also discussed in relation to Western philosophical concerns.
| Author | : Jonathan Edwards |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472060376 |
Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as "true virtue" is grounded in the hard facts of human behavior. More than a hell-fire preacher, more than a theologian, Edwards was a bold and independent philosopher. Nowhere is his force of mind more evident than in this book. He speaks as powerfully to us today as he did to the keenest minds of the eighteenth century.
| Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1996-09-13 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521578264 |
This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.
| Author | : Ronald L. Sandler |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780231141062 |
In Character and Environment, Ronald L. Sandler brings together contemporary work on virtue ethics with contemporary work on environmental ethics. He demonstrates the many ways that any ethic of character can and should be informed by environmental considerations. He also develops a pluralistic, virtue-oriented environmental ethic that accommodates the richness and complexity of our relationship with the natural environment and provides effective and nuanced guidance on environmental issues.
| Author | : Ronald D. Sandler |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780742533905 |
There is one certainty regarding the human relationship with nature-there is no getting away from it. But while a relationship with nature is a given, the nature of that relationship is not. Environmental ethics is the attempt to determine how we ought and ought not relate to the natural environment. A complete environmental ethic requires both an ethic of action and an ethic of character. Environmental virtue ethics is the area of environmental ethics concerned with character. It has been an underappreciated and underdeveloped aspect of environmental ethics-until now. The selections in this collection, consisting of ten original and four reprinted essays by leading scholars in the field, discuss the role that virtue and character have traditional played in environmental discourse, and reflect upon the role that it should play in the future. The selections also discuss the substantive content of the environmental virtues and vices, and apply them to concrete environmental issues and problems. This collection establishes the indispensability of environmental virtue ethics to environmental ethics. It also enhances the breadth and quality of the ongoing discussion of environmental virtue and vice and the role they should play in an adequate environmental ethic.
