Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics

by Timothy Chappell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199291458
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/18/2007
Series:	Mind Association Occasional Series
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

The Open University

Table of Contents

Introduction, Timothy Chappell1. Modern virtue ethics, Christopher Coope2. The admirable life and the desirable life, Linda Zagzebski3. Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime, Fred Miller4. The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence, Antony Duff5. Habituation as mimêsis, Hallvard Fossheim6. Moral incompetence, Adam Morton7. The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom, Timothy Chappell8. Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics, Paul Russell9. Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist?, Christine Swanton10. Manners, morals, and practical wisdom, Karen Stohr11. The hardboiled detective as moralist, Sandrine Berges12. "Like the Bloom on Youths": How pleasure completes our lives, Johan Braennmark13. Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth, Theodore Scaltsas14. Three dogmas of desire, Talbot Brewer