Virtue and Action: Selected Papers

Author:   Rosalind Hursthouse (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Auckland) ,  Julia Annas (University of Arizona) ,  Jeremy Reid (San Francisco State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192895844


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   08 December 2022
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This volume brings together a selection of Rosalind Hursthouse's essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy. These articles provide valuable context and clarification for much of her more famous work while drawing attention to new avenues of philosophical investigation that Hursthouse pursued. Hursthouse's work played an integral role in establishing virtue ethics as a distinctive approach in ethical theory. This collection includes essays on the development of virtue in children, what the Aristotelian practically wise person knows, how virtue ethicists can inform discussions about environmental and animal ethics, what the starting point for virtue politics should be in a contemporary political context, and how human nature and ethical naturalism could provide the foundation for a virtue ethical system.

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Author:   Rosalind Hursthouse (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Auckland) ,  Julia Annas (University of Arizona) ,  Jeremy Reid (San Francisco State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.684kg
ISBN:  

9780192895844


ISBN 10:   0192895842
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   08 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements IntroductionJulia Annas and Jeremy Reid: Bibliography I. ARISTOTLE AND ANCIENT VIRTUE ETHICS 1: The Central Doctrine of the Mean 2: Practical Wisdom: A Mundane Account 3: What Does the Aristotelian Phronimos Know? 4: Aristotle for Women Who Love Too Much 5: Excessiveness and Our Natural Development II. NORMATIVE VIRTUE ETHICS 6: Virtue Theory and Abortion 7: Are the Virtues the Proper Starting Point for Morality? 8: Discussing Dilemmas 9: Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing 10: Applying Virtue Ethics to Our Treatment of the Other Animals 11: Environmental Virtue Ethics III. ACTION THEORY, POLITICS, AND NATURALISM 12: Virtuous Action 13: Arational Actions 14: Hume on Justice 15: After Hume's Justice 16: The Good and Bad Family 17: On the Grounding of the Virtues in Human Nature 18: Human Nature and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics 19: The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical Naturalism Index

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Rosalind Hursthouse is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. She has held visiting positions at the University of California, Los Angeles (1981, 1983), the University of California, San Diego (1988, 1989), the University of Auckland (1991), the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1993), Stanford (1996), and the University of California, Berkeley as Mills Distinguished Visiting Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity (2004). In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her work has played an integral role in establishing virtue ethics as a distinctive approach in ethical theory and remains influential in the field today. She published her notable work, On Virtue Ethics, with Oxford University Press in 1999. Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, at the University of Arizona. She is the founding Editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has published many titles with Oxford University Press, including Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond (2017), Intelligent Virtue (2011) and Plato: A Very Short Introduction (2003). Jeremy Reid is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has written chapters on Plato for the works Plato's Symposium: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy (Routledge, 2019).

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