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- catalog abstract "In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared in this century. In a plain and direct fashion, Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality. He argues that the problems of these other views can be avoided and a plausible, contemporary version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, From Morality to Virtue places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual's well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.".
- catalog contributor b3440062.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared in this century. In a plain and direct fashion, Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality. He argues that the problems of these other views can be avoided and a plausible, contemporary version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular Aristotelian doctrines, From Morality to Virtue places an Aristotelian emphasis on both self-benefiting and other-benefiting virtues. Slote criticizes Kantian and common-sense morality for internal incoherencies and for downgrading the moral individual's well-being in some previously unnoticed ways. By contrast, this book defends a distinctive, intuitive, and symmetric ethical principle according to which we should balance self-concern with concern for others, but it also concludes that there is, contrary to utilitarianism, no single basis for status as a virtue nor any simple relation between the virtues and human well-being.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Kantian, utilitarian, and common-sense ethics : Some advantages of virtue ethics -- Morality and rationality -- Incoherence in Kantian and common-sense moral thinking -- Utilitarianism. Virtue ethics : Rudiments of virtue ethics -- Virtue rules -- Virtue-ethical luck -- Virtue, self, and other -- Virtue in friends and citizens -- Virtue ethics, imperatives, and the deontic. Between virtue ethics and utilitarianism : Reduction vs. elimination -- Two kinds of intrinsic goodness -- Reduction vs. elevation. Reasons for preferring virtue ethics : The main issues between utilitarianism and virtue ethics -- Utilitarian underdetermination -- Forms of pluralism -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xx, 267 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "From morality to virtue.".
- catalog identifier "0195075625 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "From morality to virtue.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "From morality to virtue.".
- catalog subject "170 20".
- catalog subject "BJ1012 .S5165 1992".
- catalog subject "Common sense.".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Utilitarianism.".
- catalog subject "Virtue.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Kantian, utilitarian, and common-sense ethics : Some advantages of virtue ethics -- Morality and rationality -- Incoherence in Kantian and common-sense moral thinking -- Utilitarianism. Virtue ethics : Rudiments of virtue ethics -- Virtue rules -- Virtue-ethical luck -- Virtue, self, and other -- Virtue in friends and citizens -- Virtue ethics, imperatives, and the deontic. Between virtue ethics and utilitarianism : Reduction vs. elimination -- Two kinds of intrinsic goodness -- Reduction vs. elevation. Reasons for preferring virtue ethics : The main issues between utilitarianism and virtue ethics -- Utilitarian underdetermination -- Forms of pluralism -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "From morality to virtue / Michael Slote.".
- catalog type "text".