The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics / / edited by Daniel C. Russell [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996204518503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-46048-4; 0-511-73478-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge companions to philosophy
• Disciplina: 179/.9
• Soggetti: Ethics; Virtue
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : virtue ethics in modern moral philosophy / Daniel C. Russell -- Virtue ethics, happiness, and the good life / Daniel C. Russell -- Ancient virtue ethics : an overview with an emphasis on practical wisdom / Rachana Kamtekar -- Virtue ethics and the Chinese Confucian tradition / Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Virtue ethics in the medieval period / Jean Porter -- Hume's anatomy of virtue / Paul Russell -- The historic decline of virtue ethics / Dorothea Frede -- Virtue ethics in the twentieth century / Timothy Chappell -- Virtue ethics and the right action / Liezl Van Zyl -- Virtue ethics and bioethics / Justin Oakley -- Environmental virtue ethics : what it is and what it needs to be / Matt Zwolinski and David Schmidtz -- The virtue approach to business ethics / Edwin Hartman -- Virtue and poilitics / Mark Lebar -- The situationist critique of virtue ethics / Gopal Sreenivasan -- The definition of virtue ethics / Christine Swanton.
• Sommario/riassunto: Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory and other topics discussed include the history of virtue-based ; approaches to ethics, what makes these approaches distinctive, what they can say about specific practical issues and where we can expect them to go in the future. This Companion will be useful to students of virtue ethics and the history of ethics and to others who want to understand how virtue ethics is changing the face of contemporary moral philosophy.