Format:
Online-Ressource (Text + Images)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511734786
Series Statement:
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521171741
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107001161
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521171748
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107001169
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Tugendethik
DOI:
10.1017/CCO9780511734786
