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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics / / edited by Daniel C. Russell [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-46048-4 |
0-511-73478-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge companions to philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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