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 Others have suggested that teleology, upon which many forms of ethical naturalism depend, is an outdated metaphysical concept.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 | : Mariska Leunissen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 019060221X |
This book discusses Aristotle's biological views about 'natural character traits' and their importance for moral development. It provides a new, comprehensive account of the physiological underpinnings of moral development and shows that the biological account of natural character provides the conceptual and ideological foundation for Aristotle's ethical views about habituation.
Author | : Hope May |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441182748 |
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism. On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related. May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics. Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory. May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics.
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 | : 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 | : John Hartcliffe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1722 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Herbert Palmer |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2019-12-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"The Nature of Goodness" by George Herbert Palmer As a scholar and author, Palmer honed his talents of observation and devise a theory on what it means to be a good person. This is not just a simple book on defining what the nature of goodness is, but it is also quite scientifically written. The author has explored and explained in detail many aspects of goodness - like extrinsic and intrinsic causes.
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 | : Thomas Rutherforth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1744 |
Genre | : Christian ethics |
ISBN | : |