Virtues and Vices: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy - Softcover

Foot, Philippa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199252866 ISBN 13: 9780199252862

Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2003

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Book by Foot Philippa

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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 consequence? (the primary focus of most other contemporary moral theorists. This volume brings together a dozen essays published between 1957 and 1977, and includes two new ones as well. 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. The final eight essays chart her growing disenchantment with emotivism and prescriptivism and t heir account of moral arguments. All the essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue. Foot's style is straightforward and readable, her arguments subtle, ingenious, and some of them important.)

Biografía del autor

Philippa Foot is Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0199252866
• ISBN 13: 9780199252862
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234