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Virtue Ethics

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Stephen Darwall (Editor) 

ISBN: 978-0-631-23114-1

November 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

270 pages

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Virtue Ethics

Stephen Darwall

Paperback
978-0-631-23114-1
November 2002
CAD $38.95
Hardcover
978-0-631-23113-4
November 2002
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CAD $176.95
Description

Virtue Ethics collects, for the first time, the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of virtue ethics approach to normative ethical theory. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory.

  • Introduced by Stephen Darwall, this collection brings together classic and contemporary readings which define and advance the literature on virtue ethics.
  • Includes six essays which respond to the classic sources.
  • Includes a contemporary discussion on character and virtue by Gary Watson.
  • Includes classic essays by Aristotle, Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philippa Foot, John McDowell, Alasdair MacIntyre, Annette Baier, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Michael Slote.
About the Author
Stephen Darwall is the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on moral philosophy and its history, and is the author of Impartial Reason (1983), The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640–1740 (1995), Philosophical Ethics (1998), and Welfare and Rational Care (2002). He is the editor, with Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton, of Moral Discourse and Practice (1997).
Features

  • Introduced by Stephen Darwall, this collection brings together classic and contemporary readings which define and advance the literature on virtue ethics.
  • Includes six essays which respond to the classic sources.
  • Includes a contemporary discussion on character and virtue by Gary Watson.
  • Includes classic essays by Aristotle, Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philippa Foot, John McDowell, Alasdair MacIntyre, Annette Baier, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Michael Slote.
Series
Wiley Blackwell Readings in Philosophy
To Purchase this product, please visit
https://dev.store.wiley.com/en-ca/Virtue+Ethics-p-9780631231141