Making a Necessity of Virtue - Aristotle and Kant on Virtue

List of contents

1. A new dialogue; 2. The emotional structure of Aristotelian virtue; 3. A brief stoic interlude; 4. The passional underpinnings of Kantian virtue; 5. The shared voyage; 6. Aristotelian particularism; 7. Making room for practical wisdom in Kantian ethics; 8. Perfecting Kantian virtue: discretionary latitude and superlative virtue.

Summary

This book offers a detailed analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics together, in a way that remains faithful to the texts and responsive to debates in contemporary ethics. Sherman argues that Kant preserves a notion of virtue in his moral theory that bears recognisable traces of the Aristotelian and Stoic traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Sherman Nancy, Nancy Sherman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1997
• EAN: 9780521564878
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56487-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards