Morals From Motives

Zusatztext Michael Slote's book Morals from Motives fosters an admirable development in modern virtue ethics: the sense that virtue ethics is a genus (like consequentialism) having several species ... Morals from Motives is a fine example of a modern virtue ethics derived from the moral 'sentimentalism' of Hutcheson and Hume, as well as James Martineau ... Slote succeeds rather well in maintaining a clear focus throughout the book. Klappentext Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics! it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason. Zusammenfassung Developing a virtue ethics inspired by moral sentimentalism, this book argues that a reconfigured and expanded 'morality of caring' can offer a general account of right and wrong action and also of social justice. It also shows how a motive-based 'pure' virtue theory can also help understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Slote, Michael (Professor of Philosophy Slote, Michael A. Slote, Slote Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780195138375
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513837-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy