Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.
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"The purest and most interesting virtue-ethical theory yet developed. The publication of this book should change the way virtue ethics is understood."--Thomas Hurka, University of Toronto
"[Slote's] project is an attractively shaped one. It is also ambitious, encompassing discussions of political morality and practical rationality."--Times Literary Supplement, November 22, 2002
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We are in the midst of a tremendous revival of interest in virtue ethics, but till quite recently almost everything that has appeared in this vein has been of Aristotelian inspiration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elevationist account, platonic elevationism, appetitive goods, balanced caring, moral sentimentalism, humanitarian caring, objective list theories, prison camp guard, moral shift, conscientious concern, intimate caring, virtue ethics, universal benevolence, overall motivation, intrinsic concern, humane caring, rational virtue, morally good person Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, James Martineau, Bernard Williams, Clarendon Press, Different Voice, Jorge Garcia, Feminine Approach, Form of the Good, Marcia Baron, Thomas Hurka, John Rawls, Nel Noddings, Three Methods of Ethics, Huckleberry Finn, Sam Kerstein, Scott Gelfand, Shelly Kagan New!
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- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 5 pages
- Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick on 4 pages
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan on 4 pages
- Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Second Edition, with a New Preface by Nel Noddings on page 29, page 48, and page 91
- An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue: In Two Treatise by Francis Hutcheson on page 19, page 48, and page 70
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- Moral and Epistemic Virtues (Metaphilosophy) by Michael Brady on 4 pages
- The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held on 4 pages
- The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education by Nigel Blake in Front Matter, page 354, and Back Matter
- A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good by Robert Merrihew Adams on page 7, page 75, and Back Matter
- Reasonably Vicious by Professor Candace Vogler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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