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Rethinking Virtue Ethics

By Michael Winter (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2012
ISBN
9400721927, 9789400721920
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-2193-7
ISSN
1387-6678
Google Books ID
zSypFtDXLH0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1195881 bytes)
Series
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 28
Edition
1
Pages
186\194
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00
Ethics; Personality and Social Psychology

Description

Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm. This book argues that, contrary to what many contemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with at least some action-guiding moral principles being true unconditionally, and that a justification for general moral principles can be grounded in fundamental concepts within Aristotle’s theory. An analysis of ethical propositions that hold for the most part is proposed that fits well within the deductive paradigm developed. This unique interpretation of virtue ethics has implications for recent discussions of the virtues in social psychology, issues about how fundamental moral principles are known, questions about the justification of inalienable rights, debates about moral particularism and generalism, and discussions of moral realism and anti-realism.

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