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Perfecting Virtue Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)

Perfecting Virtue By Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)

Perfecting Virtue by Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)


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This volume presents the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists in twelve newly commissioned essays by leading scholars in both of these traditions. The authors identify the common ground, and also the real and lasting differences, between the two approaches.

Perfecting Virtue Summary

Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics by Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)

In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists has assumed an especially prominent position. The twelve newly commissioned essays in this volume, by leading scholars in both traditions, explore key aspects of each approach as related to the debate, and identify new common ground but also real and lasting differences between these approaches. The volume provides a rich overview of the continuing debate between two powerful forms of enquiry, and will be valuable for a wide range of students and scholars working in these fields.

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...contributions to Perfecting Virtue are interesting and well-written, and for that reason alone the essays are worth reading. The primary value and relevance of the book however, lies less with the individual contributions, than with the combined effect of these essays on the reader... --Carsten Fogh Nielsen, Ph.D., University of Aarhus, Metapsychology Online Reviews

About Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)

Lawrence Jost is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. He is the co-editor of Eudaimonia and Well-Being (2003). Julian Wuerth is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics (2010).

Table of Contents

Contributors; Method of citing Aristotle's works; Method of citing Kant's works; Introduction; 1. Virtue ethics in relation to Kantian ethics: an opinionated overview and commentary Marcia Baron; 2. What does the Aristotelian Phronimos know? Rosalind Hursthouse; 3. Kant and agent-oriented ethics Allen Wood; 4. The difference that ends make Barbara Herman; 5. Two pictures of practical thinking Talbot Brewer; 6. Moving beyond Kant's account of agency in the Grounding Julian Wuerth; 7. A Kantian conception of human flourishing Lara Denis; 8. Kantian perfectionism Paul Guyer; 9. Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant on anger Nancy Sherman; 10. Kant's impartial virtues of love Christine Swanton; 11. The problem we all have with deontology Michael Slote; 12. Intuition, system, and the 'paradox' of deontology Timothy Chappell; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781107538887
9781107538887
1107538882
Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics by Lawrence Jost (University of Cincinnati)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2015-07-30
324
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