Virtue Ethics

by Crisp, Roger; Slote, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780198751885
• ISBN10: 0198751885
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume brings together much of the most influential work undertaken in the field of virtue ethics over the last four decades. The ethics of virtue predominated in the ancient world, and recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in virtue ethics as a rival to Kantian and utilitarian approaches to morality. Divided into four sections, the collection includes articles critical of other traditions; early attempts to offer a positive vision of virtue ethics; some later criticisms of the revival of virtue ethics; and, finally, some recent, more theoretically ambitious essays in virtue ethics.

Author Biography

Roger Crisp is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford. He edited How Should One Live? Essays on the Virtues (OUP, 1996), is an associate editor of Utilitas, and is currently working on a book on J. S. Mill's Utilitarianism.
Michael Slote is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of From Morality to Virtue, and is currently collaborating with Marcia Baron and Philip Pettit on a book debating the merits of Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(25)
Roger Crisp
Michael Slote
Modern Moral Philosophy	26	(19)
G.E.M. Anscombe
Morality, the Peculiar Institution	45	(21)
Bernard Williams
The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories	66	(13)
Michael Stocker
Moral Saints	79	(20)
Susan Wolf
The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts	99	(19)
Iris Murdoch
The Nature of the Virtues	118	(23)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtue and Reason	141	(22)
John McDowell
Virtues and Vices	163	(15)
Philippa Foot
The Misfortunes of Virtue	178	(23)
Jerome B. Schneewind
On Some Vices of Virtue Ethics	201	(16)
Robert B. Louden
Virtue Theory and Abortion	217	(22)
Rosalind Hursthouse
Agent-Based Virtue Ethics	239	(24)
Michael Slote
What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?	263	(15)
Annette Baier
Notes on the Contributors	278	(2)
Bibliography	280	(3)
Index of Names	283