Research Catalog

Title

Ethical theory : character and virtue / editors, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein.

Publication

Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, c1988.

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Additional Authors

• French, Peter A.
• Uehling, Theodore Edward.
• Wettstein, Howard K.

Description

442 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 13

Subject

• Ethics
• Virtue
• Character
• Virtue

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Sōphrosunē : how a virtue can become socially disruptive / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The virtue of love / Robert C. Solomon -- Non-relative virtues : an Aristotelian approach / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Ancient wisdom and modern folly / Richard Taylor -- The structure of virtue / R.B. Brandt -- Flourishing and the failure of the ethics of virtue / Sarah Conly -- Common sense and uncommon virtue / Nancy Sherman -- Character and ethical theory / Joel Kupperman -- Radical virtue ethics / Kurt Baier -- Virtues and their vicissitudes / Amelie O. Rorty -- Morality and the morally informed life / R.Z. Friedman -- The dog that gave himself the moral law / Cora Diamond -- Moral minimalism and the development of moral character / David L. Norton.
• Moral exemplars : reflections on Schindler, the Trocmes, and others / Lawrence A. Blum -- Ethics and the craft analogy / James D. Wallace -- Envy and jealousy : emotions and vices / Gabriele Taylor -- A man by nothing is so well betrayed as by his manners? : politeness as a virtue / Felicia Ackerman -- Remorse and agent-regret / Marcia Baron -- Shame and moral progress / John Kekes -- Common projects and moral virtue / Robert Merrihew Adams -- On the advantages of cooperativeness / Fred Feldman -- On flourishing and finding one's identity in community / David B. Wong -- Virtue, religion, and civic culture / Richard J. Regan -- Civic virtue, corruption, and the structure of moral theories / Michael Davis -- Moral motivation : Kantians versus Humeans (and evolution) / Laurence Thomas.
• Utilitarian virtue / Michael Slote -- How thinking about character and utilitarianism might lead to rethinking the character of utilitarianism / Peter Railton -- Aristotelian justice as a personal virtue / David K. O'Connor -- Internal objections to virtue ethics / David Solomon.

Call Number

JFE 02-7200

ISBN

• 0268013691
• 0268013705 (pbk.)

LCCN

88020570

OCLC

18190588

Title

Ethical theory : character and virtue / editors, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein.

Imprint

Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, c1988.

Series

Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 13

Bibliography

Includes bibliographies.

Indexed Term

Virtue

Added Author

French, Peter A.

Uehling, Theodore Edward.

Wettstein, Howard K.

Research Call Number

JFE 02-7200