Virtue and Action Selected Papers

by Hursthouse, Rosalind; Annas, Julia; Reid, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780192895844
• ISBN10: 0192895842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-03-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rosalind Hursthouse, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Auckland

Rosalind Hursthouse is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. She has held visiting positions at the University of California, Los Angeles (1981, 1983), the University of California, San Diego (1988, 1989), the University of Auckland (1991), the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill (1993), Stanford (1996), and the University of California, Berkeley as Mills Distinguished Visiting Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity (2004). In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her work has played an integral role in
establishing virtue ethics as a distinctive approach in ethical theory and remains influential in the field today. She published her notable work, On Virtue Ethics, with Oxford University Press in 1999.

Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, at the University of Arizona. She is the founding Editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has published many titles with Oxford
University Press, including Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond (2017), Intelligent Virtue (2011) and Plato: A Very Short Introduction (2003).

Jeremy Reid is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has written chapters on Plato for the works Plato's Symposium: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy (Routledge, 2019).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction Julia Annas and Jeremy Reid
Bibliography
I. ARISTOTLE AND ANCIENT VIRTUE ETHICS
1. The Central Doctrine of the Mean
2. Practical Wisdom: A Mundane Account
3. What Does the Aristotelian Phronimos Know?
4. Aristotle for Women Who Love Too Much
5. Excessiveness and Our Natural Development
II. NORMATIVE VIRTUE ETHICS
6. Virtue Theory and Abortion
7. Are the Virtues the Proper Starting Point for Morality?
8. Discussing Dilemmas
9. Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing
10. Applying Virtue Ethics to Our Treatment of the Other Animals
11. Environmental Virtue Ethics
III. ACTION THEORY, POLITICS, AND NATURALISM
12. Virtuous Action
13. Arational Actions
14. Hume on Justice
15. After Hume's Justice
16. The Good and Bad Family
17. On the Grounding of the Virtues in Human Nature
18. Human Nature and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
19. The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical Naturalism
Index