| Author: | Michael Slote | ISBN: | 9780190207939 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | February 15, 2001 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael Slote |
| ISBN: | 9780190207939 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | February 15, 2001 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.
