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Uneasy Virtue

By Julia Driver

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
052103406X, 9780521034067, 0521781728, 9780521781725, 9780511019814
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
510 kB (522036 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages
160\158
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Driver challenges Aristotle's classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues that do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Modesty, for example, is generally considered to be a virtue even though the modest person may be making an inaccurate assessment of his or her accomplishments. She argues that we should abandon the highly intellectualist view of virtue and instead adopt a consequentialist perspective that holds that virtue is simply a character trait that systematically produces good consequences.

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