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Titolo: | Values and virtues [[electronic resource] ] : Aristotelianism in contemporary ethics / / edited by Timothy Chappell |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Disciplina: | 171 /.3 |
Soggetto topico: | Virtue |
Ethics, Modern | |
Ethics, Ancient | |
Altri autori: | ChappellT. D. J (Timothy D. J.) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Modern virtue ethics / Christopher Miles Coope -- The admirable life and the desirable life / Linda Zagzebski -- Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime / Fred D. Miller, Jun. -- The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence / R. A. Duff -- Habituation as mimesis / Hallvard J. Fossheim -- Moral incompetence / Adam Morton -- The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom / Timothy Chappell -- Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics / Paul Russell -- Con Nietzsche be both an existentialist and a virtue ethicist? / Christine Swanton -- Manners, morals, and practical wisdom / Karen Stohr -- The hardboiled detective as moralist : ethics in crime fiction / Sandrine Berges -- 'Like the bloom on youths' : how pleasure completes our lives / Johan Brannmark -- Mixed determinates : pleasure, good, and truth / Theodore Scaltsas -- Three dogmas of desire / Talbot Brewer. |
Sommario/riassunto: | After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound and he continues to be a very important contributor to contemporary debates in philosophical ethics. This collection showcases some of the best new writing on the Aristotelian notion of virtue of character, which remains central to much of the most interesting work in ethical theory. - ;After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound even when subterranean. Typical members of our society can often be made to see that their moral thought and action are, in crucia |
Titolo autorizzato: | Values and virtues |
ISBN: | 1-383-04382-5 |
0-19-160878-5 | |
1-281-15486-5 | |
9786611154868 | |
0-19-153759-4 | |
1-4356-1821-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784983503321 |
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