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Author : James Laidlaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107028463
A clearly written, sophisticated summary of and prospectus for a flourishing current field of anthropological research.
Author : Stan van Hooft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317494034
More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given situations. Virtue ethics, which focuses upon the character of moral agents more than on the moral status of their actions or the consequences of those actions, has become one of the most important and stimulating areas of contemporary ethical theory. "Understanding Virtue Ethics" is an accessible and lively introduction to the subject. It provides a broad overview of the history of virtue ethics from Aristotle to Nietzsche as well as examining the ideas of such contemporary writers as Ricoeur and Levinas. Major themes dealt with by moral theory are examined and how a virtue ethics approach to them differs from those of other traditions is explored. Practical problems of moral complexity such as abortion, euthanasia, and integrity in politics, and how they might be approached from a virtue perspective are considered. The charges of relativism and egoism that are often mounted against virtue ethics are rebutted and virtues that are especially relevant to contemporary life, namely, courage, taking responsibility, and reverence are examined in depth. Finally, the author argues that virtue ethics is highly relevant to our understanding of the moral dimensions of professional roles.
Author : Robert Hariman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 027104666X
This volume brings together scholars in classics, political philosophy, and rhetoric to analyze prudence as a distinctive and vital form of political intelligence. Through case studies from each of the major periods in the history of prudence, the authors identify neglected resources for political judgement in today's conditions of pluralism and interdependency. Three assumptions inform these essays: the many dimensions of prudence cannot be adequately represented in the lexicon of any single discipline; the Aristotelian focus on prudence as rational calculation needs to be balanced by the Ciceronian emphasis on prudence as discursive performance embedded in familiar social practices; and understanding prudence requires attention to how it operates thorough the communicative media and public discourses that constitute the political community.
Author : James D. Faubion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139501279
Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope. In making this revision, Faubion illustrates his program with two extended case studies: one of a Portuguese marquis and the other of a dual subject made up of the author and a millenarian prophetess. The result is a conceptual apparatus that is able to accommodate ethical pluralism and yield an account of the limits of ethical variation, providing a novel resolution of the problem of relativism that has haunted anthropological inquiry into ethics since its inception.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781623569815
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Author : Heather Martel
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813057316
In Deadly Virtue, Heather Martel argues that the French Protestant attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s significantly shaped the developing concept of race in sixteenth-century America. Telling the story of the short-lived French settlement of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, Martel reveals how race, gender, sexuality, and Christian morality intersected to form the foundations of modern understandings of whiteness. Equipped with Calvinist theology and humoral science, an ancient theory that the human body is subject to physical change based on one’s emotions and environment, French settlers believed their Christian love could transform the cultural, spiritual, and political allegiances of Indigenous people. But their conversion efforts failed when the colony was wiped out by the Spanish. Martel explains that the French took this misfortune as a sign of God’s displeasure with their collaborative ideals, and from this historical moment she traces the growth of separatist colonial strategies. Through the logic of Calvinist predestination, Martel argues, colonists came to believe that white, Christian bodies were beautiful, virtuous, entitled to wealth, and chosen by God. The history of Fort Caroline offers a key to understanding the resonances between religious morality and white supremacy in America today.
Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Integrity
ISBN : 9780553095920
The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.
Author : Nicholas Austin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781626164734
Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.
Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191617225
Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. Annas argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of a kind which can illuminatingly be compared to the kind of reasoning we find in someone exercising a practical skill. Rather than asking at the start how virtues relate to rules, principles, maximizing, or a final end, we should look at the way in which the acquisition and exercise of virtue can be seen to be in many ways like the acquisition and exercise of more mundane activities, such as farming, building or playing the piano. This helps us to see virtue as part of an agent's happiness or flourishing, and as constituting (wholly, or in part) that happiness. We are offered a better understanding of the relation between virtue as an ideal and virtue in everyday life, and the relation between being virtuous and doing the right thing.
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108498388
A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.
Author : Catherine A. Darnell,Kristján Kristjánsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000218039
Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice explores questions about the locality versus the universality of virtues from a number of theoretical and practical perspectives. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it considers the relevance of these debates for the practice of virtue and character education. This volume brings together experts from education, philosophy, and psychology to consider how different disciplines might learn from each other and how insights from theory and practice can be integrated. It shows that questions about virtue relativity or universality have not only theoretical significance but also important practical ramifications. The chapters explore different complexities of virtue ethics and different approaches to nurturing virtue and beyond, questioning how well virtues travel across geographical and cultural borders. By examining the philosophical literature and making links between theory and practice in an original way, the book offers scholarly research-informed suggestions for practice. It will be of great interest to researchers and academics and students in educational philosophy, character education, ethics, and psychology.
Author : Mark Alfano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317541622
Virtue is among the most venerable concepts in philosophy, and has recently seen a major revival. However, new challenges to conceptions of virtue have also arisen. In Current Controversies in Virtue Theory, five pairs of cutting-edge philosophers square off over central topics in virtue theory: the nature of virtue, the connection between virtue and flourishing, the connection between moral and epistemic virtues, the way in which virtues are acquired, and the possibility of attaining virtue. Mark Alfano guides his readers through these essays (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction, succinct abstracts of each debate, suggested further readings and study questions for each controversy, and a list of further controversies to be explored.
Author : Tim Henning,David P. Schweikard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136227240
This volume brings together recent work by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on the topic of virtue epistemology. The prospects of virtue-theoretic analyses of knowledge depend crucially on our ability to give some independent account of what epistemic virtues are and what they are for. The contributions here ask how epistemic virtues matter apart from any narrow concern with defining knowledge; they show how epistemic virtues figure in accounts of various aspects of our lives, with a special emphasis on our practical lives. In essence, the essays here put epistemic virtues to work.
Author : James Laidlaw,Barbara Bodenhorn,Martin Holbraad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108424967
A focused debate on human subjectivity and post-humanism, with a range of theoretical and ethnographic responses to a classic article.