Overview
- Offers an original and unique contribution to a vibrant discussion in contemporary philosophy
- Provides a basis for seeing how to make a philosophical case for inalienable rights
- Explains how unconditional ethical principles are consistent with a virtue based approach to ethics
- Addresses some of the main challenges and objections to virtue ethics in contemporary literature
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 28)
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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.Â
         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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Book Title: Rethinking Virtue Ethics
Authors: Michael Winter
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2193-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2192-0Published: 10 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3702-0Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2193-7Published: 06 September 2011
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 186
Topics: Ethics, Personality and Social Psychology