Virtues and Vices: and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199252858 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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ctdreyer said Must-Read Papers for Meta-Ethicists. This is a fabulous collection of papers. It covers the most important papers from Foot's in the period from the 50s to the 70s, and it includes several classics of twentieth-century meta-ethics (e.g. "Moral Arguments," "Moral Beliefs," and "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives").While Foot's most important work has been in meta-ethics, this collection includes some quality papers in normative ethics. The opening paper, "Virtues and Vices," is one of the works that he
This volume brings together a dozen essays published between 1957 and 1977, and includes two new ones as well. Foot's style is straightforward and readable, her arguments subtle, ingenious, and some of them important."--Choice. "Foot stands out among contemporary ethical theorists because of her conviction that virtues and vices are more central ethical notions than rights, duties, justice, or consequences--the primary focus of most other contemporary moral theorists. The final eight essays chart her growing disenchantment with emotivism and prescriptivism and t heir account of moral arguments. In the first, Foot argues explicitly for an ethic of virtue, and in the next five discusses abortion, euthanasia, free will/determination, and the ethics of Hume and Nietzsche. All the essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue
Foot's style is straightforward and readable, her arguments subtle"--Choice. "Foot stands out among contemporary ethical theorists because of her conviction that virtues and vices are more central ethical notions than rights, duties, justice, or consequences--the primary focus of most other contemporary moral theorists.These essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue
. Philippa Foot is Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford