Working Virtue

Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems

Autor: Rebecca L. Walker, Philip J. Ivanhoe

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Oxford University Press

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Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral pro...

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Autor

Rebecca L. Walker, Philip J. Ivanhoe

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2007

Stránek

336

EAN

9780199271658

ISBN

0199271658

Enbook ID

04531203

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press

Hmotnost

645

Rozměry

160 x 250 x 20

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Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness (heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These character traits must be looked to in any attempt to understand which particular actions are right or wrong and how we ought to live our lives. As a theoretical approach, virtue ethics has made an impressive comeback in relatively recent history, both posing an alternative to, and, in some ways, complementing well-known theoretical stances such as utilitarianism and deontology. Yet there is still very little material available that presents virtue-ethical approaches to practical contemporary moral problems, such as what we owe distant strangers, our parents, or even non-human animals. This book fills the gap by dealing with these and other pressing moral problems in a clear and theoretically nuanced manner. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative, and stoic. This variety allows the reader to appreciate not only the wide range of topics for which a virtue-ethical approach may be fitting, but also the distinctive ways in which such an approach may be manifested.

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