Subject: Philosophy Book Title: How Should One Live?
How Should One Live?
Essays on the Virtues
Crisp, Roger
(Editor), Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, Oxford
Print publication date: 1998
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-875234-9
doi:10.1093/0198752342.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-875234-9
doi:10.1093/0198752342.001.0001
Abstract:
Contains 14 specially commissioned papers on aspects of virtue ethics, and a substantial introduction that also serves as an introduction to virtue ethics. Topics covered include the practical application of the theory, ancient views, partiality, Kant, utilitarianism, human nature, natural and artificial virtues, virtues and the good, vices, emotions, politics, feminism and moral education, and community.
Keywords: ancient ethics, community, emotions, feminism, human nature, Kantian ethics, moral education, moral theory, partiality, utilitarianism, virtue, virtue ethics, well-being
Keywords: ancient ethics, community, emotions, feminism, human nature, Kantian ethics, moral education, moral theory, partiality, utilitarianism, virtue, virtue ethics, well-being
Table of Contents
1. Modern Moral Philosophy and the Virtues
2. Normative Virtue Ethics
3. The Virtues: Theory and Common Sense in Greek Philosophy
4. Partiality and the Virtues
5. Kant's Virtues
6. Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Symmetry
7. The Virtues and Human Nature
8. Natural and Artificial Virtues
9. Does Moral Virtue Constitute a Benefit to the Agent?
10. Deadly Vices?
11. How Emotions Reveal Value and Help Cure the Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories
12. MacIntyre on Modernity and How It Has Marginalized the Virtues
13. Feminism, Moral Development, and the Virtues
14. Community and Virtue
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0198752342.001.0001
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