Virtue Ethics by Christine Swanton
Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness of ethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues. Swanton's approach is distinctive in departing in siginificant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions of rightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.
Review from previous edition With Christine Swanton's new book, contemporary virtue ethics takes a confident step out of the philosophical nursery.. no one interested in the health and prospects of moral philosophy should ignore this excellent book. * Samantha Vice, Times Literary Supplement *
Christine Swanton is a philosopher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. She is the author of Virtue Ethics: A Pluralist View (2005), Freedom: A Coherence Theory (1992), and has contributed numerous articles to journals and reference works. She is regarded as one of the leading academic figures currently working within the field of virtue ethics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199278473 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199278474 |
| Title | Virtue Ethics |
| Author | Christine Swanton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2005-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
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