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Values and Virtues Timothy Chappell (The Open University)

Values and Virtues By Timothy Chappell (The Open University)

Values and Virtues by Timothy Chappell (The Open University)


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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.

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Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics by Timothy Chappell (The Open University)

After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound even when subterranean. Typical members of our society can often be made to see that their moral thought and action are, in crucial ways, unwittingly Aristotelian. No one in contemporary philosophical ethics can afford to ignore Aristotle. Much of the finest work in recent moral philosophy has been overtly and professedly Aristotelian in inspiration. And many writers who would officially distance themselves from Aristotle and his contemporary followers are nonetheless indebted to him, sometimes in ways that they do not realise. Values and Virtues provides a platform for some notable writers in the area to present and discuss their new ideas about Aristotelian ethics in a way that will advance the academic debate and engage the interest of a broad range of philosophical readers.

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Aristoterlian scholarship, whether theoretical or applied, orthodox or self-styled, is a gigantic jigsaw puzzlw with some of the biggest pieces missing: all the books form Aristotle'soriginal corpus that are lost...The book under review here rearranges some of the exsistent Aristotelian pieces and relates them handily to other puzzles of present concernes. In default of the Aristotelian Indiana Jones, this surely counts as progress. * Kristjan Kristjansson MIND *
there are original and valuable articles in widely debated issues in virtue ethics as well as in moral philosophy in general. The collection of papers will certainly respond to interests of scholars working on a wide range of topics. * Elvio Baccarini, Rhizai *

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Modern virtue ethics ; 2. The admirable life and the desirable life ; 3. Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime ; 4. The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence ; 5. Habituation as mimesis ; 6. Moral incompetence ; 7. The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom ; 8. Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics ; 9. Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist? ; 10. Manners, morals, and practical wisdom ; 11. The hardboiled detective as moralist ; 12. 'Like the Bloom on Youths': How pleasure completes our lives ; 13. Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth ; 14. Three dogmas of desire

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NPB9780199291458
9780199291458
0199291454
Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics by Timothy Chappell (The Open University)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2006-11-16
310
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