How Should One Live? Essays on the Virtues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198240589 ISBN 13: 9780198240587

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The last few years have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which have regained their central role in moral philosophy. This thought-provoking new collection is a much-needed survey of virtue ethics and virtue theory. The specially commissioned articles by an international team of philosophers represent the state of the art in this subject and will set the agenda for future work in the area. The contributors--including Lawrence Blum, John Cottingham, Julia Driver, Rosalind Hursthouse, Terence Irwin, Susan Moller Okin, Onora O'Neill, Michael Slote, Michael Stocker, and David Wiggins--cover practical virtue ethics, ancient views of the virtues, impartiality and partiality, Kant, utilitarianism, human nature, natural and artificial virtues, virtue and the good life, the vices, emotions, politics, feminism, moral education, and community.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The last four decades have seen a remarkable revival of interest in the virtues, which lay at the heart of ancient and medieval moral philosophy. This collection is the first general survey of this revival, containing specially commissioned articles on topics central to virtue ethics and virtue theory, written by a distinguished international team of philosophers. It represents the state of the art in this subject, and will set the agenda for future work.

About the Author:

Roger Crisp is at St Anne's College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198240589
• ISBN 13: 9780198240587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 263
• Editor: Crisp Roger