Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism

Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism
Author: Andrius Bielskis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135012219X

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This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute. This volume bridges the gap between Aristotle's philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part I draws on Aristotle's texts and Thomas Aquinas' Aristotelianism to examine the Aristotelian tradition of virtues, with a chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre contextualising the different readings of Aristotle's philosophy. Part II offers a critical engagement with MacIntyrean Aristotelianism, while Part III demonstrates the ongoing influence of Aristotelianism in contemporary theoretical debates on governance and politics. Extensive in its historical scope, this is a valuable collection relating the tradition of virtue to modernity, which will be of interest to all working in virtue ethics and contemporary Aristotelian politics.

Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism

Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism
Author: Andrius Bielskis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350122181

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This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute. This volume bridges the gap between Aristotle's philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part I draws on Aristotle's texts and Thomas Aquinas' Aristotelianism to examine the Aristotelian tradition of virtues, with a chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre contextualising the different readings of Aristotle's philosophy. Part II offers a critical engagement with MacIntyrean Aristotelianism, while Part III demonstrates the ongoing influence of Aristotelianism in contemporary theoretical debates on governance and politics. Extensive in its historical scope, this is a valuable collection relating the tradition of virtue to modernity, which will be of interest to all working in virtue ethics and contemporary Aristotelian politics.

Values and Virtues

Values and Virtues
Author: Timothy Chappell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2006-11-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199291454

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After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound even when subterranean. Typical members of our society can often be made to see that their moral thought and action are, in crucial ways, unwittingly Aristotelian. No one in contemporary philosophical ethics can afford to ignore Aristotle. Much of the finest work in recent moral philosophy has been overtly and professedly Aristotelian in inspiration. And many writers who would officiallydistance themselves from Aristotle and his contemporary followers are nonetheless indebted to him, sometimes in ways that they do not realise.Values and Virtues provides a platform for some notable writers in the area to present and discuss their new ideas about Aristotelian ethics in a way that will advance the academic debate and engage the interest of a broad range of philosophical readers.

Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective

Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective
Author: Julia Peters
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135100888

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By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations. Contributors critically discuss and re-assess the neo-Aristotelian paradigm which has been predominant in the philosophical discourse on virtue for the past 30 years.

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics
Author: Paula Gottlieb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 052176176X

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This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Aristotle and the Virtues

Aristotle and the Virtues
Author: Howard J. Curzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199693722

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Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.

Before Virtue

Before Virtue
Author: Jonathan J. Sanford
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813227399

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Jonathan Sanford finds that despite the common origins of contemporary virtue ethics in Anscombe, the literature varies widely not just in its scope but in its basic commitments. What exactly is contemporary virtue ethics? In Before Virtue, Sanford develops strategies for describing contemporary virtue ethics accurately. He then assesses contemporary virtue approaches by the Anscombean dual standard which inspired them: the degree to which they avoid the pitfalls of modern moral philosophy and the extent to which they exemplify a successful recovery of an Aristotelian approach to ethics.

The Supremacy of Love

The Supremacy of Love
Author: Eric J. Silverman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1793608849

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Thirty-five years ago Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue established virtue ethics as a major challenger to competing visions of morality, but there is still considerable disagreement concerning which version of virtue ethics provides the best approach. The Supremacy of Love describes and advocates an agape-centered vision of Aristotelian virtue ethics that portrays love as the most important moral virtue, and the goals of love as a partial constituent of every genuine virtue. This structural improvement to Aristotelian virtue ethics—found originally in the ethics of Thomas Aquinas—enables this account to address several controversial topics in contemporary virtue ethics, including why the virtues cannot be used badly, in what sense is there a unity between the virtues, how the virtues benefit the virtuous person, and how virtues provide action guidance. Eric J. Silverman demonstrates how and why a distinctly love-centered approach to virtue ethics should make the view widely attractive in comparison to alternative accounts of virtue ethics, duty based deontological theories, as well as results-based consequentialist views.

Virtue and Meaning

Virtue and Meaning
Author: David McPherson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108477887

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Argues that any adequate neo-Aristotelian virtue ethic must account for our distinctive nature as the meaning-seeking animal.

Working Virtue

Working Virtue
Author: Rebecca L. Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2007-01-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199271658

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A collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems, this work discusses topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. It offers a variety of perspectives, including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative and stoic.