Book Description
Argues that any adequate neo-Aristotelian virtue ethic must account for our distinctive nature as the meaning-seeking animal.
Author : David McPherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108477887
Argues that any adequate neo-Aristotelian virtue ethic must account for our distinctive nature as the meaning-seeking animal.
Author : David McPherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108804713
The revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics can be seen as a response to the modern problem of disenchantment, that is, the perceived loss of meaning in modernity. However, in Virtue and Meaning, David McPherson contends that the dominant approach still embraces an overly disenchanted view. In a wide-ranging discussion, McPherson argues for a more fully re-enchanted perspective that gives better recognition to the meanings by which we live and after which we seek, and to the fact that human beings are the meaning-seeking animal. In doing so, he defends distinctive accounts of the relationship between virtue and happiness, other-regarding demands, and the significance of linking neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics with a view of the meaning of life and a spiritual life where contemplation has a central role. This book will be valuable for philosophers and other readers who are interested in virtue ethics and the perennial question of the meaning of life.
Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052176176X
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author : Gillian Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199232199
The distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences - the idea that some sentences are true or false just in virtue of what they mean - is a famous focus of philosophical controversy. Gillian Russell reinvigorates the debate with a challenging new defence of the distinction, showing that it is compatible with semantic externalism.
Author : Nicolas Bommarito
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190673389
Inner virtue and vice -- Pleasure -- Emotion -- Attention -- The relevance of inner virtue
Author : Nancy E. Snow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199967423
Though virtue ethics is enjoying a resurgence, the topic of virtue cultivation has been largely neglected by philosophers. This book features essays by philosophers, theologians, and psychologists at the forefront of research into virtue.--Publisher's description.
Author : Matthew Pianalto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 149852821X
Many of us are so busy that we might be tempted to think we don’t have time to be patient. However, that idea involves a serious underestimation of what patience is and why it matters. In On Patience, Matthew Pianalto revives a richer understanding of what patience is and why it is centrally important in both virtue theory and everyday life. Drawing from a wide range of philosophical and religious sources, Pianalto shows that our contemporary tendency to equate patience with waiting fails to do justice to other aspects of patience such as tolerance, perseverance, and the opposition of patience to anger. With this broader understanding of patience, Pianalto further shows how patience supports the development of other moral strengths, such as courage, justice, love, and hope. In these ways, On Patience sheds light on Franz Kafka’s remark that, “Patience is the master key to every situation,” and Gregory the Great’s perhaps surprising claim that, “Patience is the root and guardian of all the virtues.” This first book-length contemporary philosophical examination of patience will be of interest to students and scholars not just of virtue ethics, but also of moral philosophy more broadly.
Author : Lisa Tessman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198039824
Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues is a deeply original and provocative work that engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, she addresses the ways in which devastating conditions confronted by these selves both limit and burden their moral goodness, and affect their possibilities of flourishing. She describes two different forms of "moral trouble" prevalent under oppression. The first is that the oppressed self may be morally damaged, prevented from developing or exercising some of the virtues; the second is that the very conditions of oppression require the oppressed to develop a set of virtues that carry a moral cost to those who practice them--traits that Tessman refers to as "burdened virtues." These virtues have the unusual feature of being disjoined from their bearer's own well being. Tessman's work focuses on issues that have been missed by many feminist moral theories, and her use of the virtue ethics framework brings feminist concerns more closely into contact with mainstream ethical theory. This book will appeal to feminist theorists in philosophy and women's studies, but also more broadly, ethicists and social theorists.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : SDE Classics
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781951570279
Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1964-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1101137223
A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged—have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objectivism, her divisive philosophy holds human life—the life proper to a rational being—as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature. In this series of essays, Rand asks why man needs morality in the first place, and arrives at an answer that redefines a new code of ethics based on the virtue of selfishness. More Than 1 Million Copies Sold!