Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics

by Edited by Lawrence Jost , Julian Wuerth

• ISBN13: 9780521515252
• ISBN10: 0521515254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists has assumed an especially prominent position. The twelve newly-commissioned essays in this volume, by leading scholars in both traditions, explore key aspects of each approach as related to the debate, and identify new common ground but also real and lasting differences between these approaches. The volume provides a rich overview of the continuing debate between two powerful forms of enquiry, and will be valuable for a wide range of students and scholars working in these fields.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Method of citing Aristotle's works

Method of citing Kant's works

Introduction

Virtue ethics in relation to Kantian ethics: an opinionated overview and commentary

What does the Aristotelian Phronimos know?

Kant and agent-oriented ethics

The difference that ends make

Two pictures of practical thinking

Moving beyond Kant's account of agency in the Grounding

A Kantian conception of human flourishing

Kantian perfectionism

Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant on anger

Kant's impartial virtues of love

The problem we all have with deontology

Intuition, system, and the 'paradox' of deontology

Bibliography

Index

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