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The Routledge companion to virtue ethics / edited by Lorraine Besser-Jones and Michael Slote.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge philosophy companionsDescription: xxiii, 558 pages ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780415659338
  • 0415659337
  • 9780203071755
  • 0203071751
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1521 .R68 2015
Contents:
HISTORY OF VIRTUE ETHICS . Plato and the ethics of virtue / Nicholas White -- Aristotle's virtue ethics / Dorothea Frede -- The stoic theory of virtue / Tad Brennan -- Hindu virtue ethics / Roy W. Perrett and Glen Pettigrove -- Why Confucius' ethics is a virtue ethics / May Sim -- Mencius' virtue ethics meets the moral foundation theory: a comparison / Shirong Luo -- Virtue in Buddhist ethical traditions / Charles Goodman -- Respect for differences: the Daoist virtue / Yong Huang -- Xunzi and virtue ethics / Eric L. Hutton -- Consecrated virtue: Augustine's theological animus / James Wetzel -- Aquinas: infused virtues / Andrew Pinsent -- Hume / Jacqueline Taylor -- Nietzsche and the virtues / Edward Harcourt.
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES . Eudaimonistic virtue ethics / Liezl van Zyl -- Sentimentalist virtue ethics / Michael L. Frazer and Michael Slote -- Pluralistic virtue ethics / Christine Swanton -- Varieties of contemporary Christian virtue ethics / Jennifer A. Herdt -- Contemporary Confucianism / David Elstein -- Virtue epistemology and virtue ethics / Heather Battaly and Michael Slote -- Feminist virtue ethics / Karen Stohr -- Agape and virtue ethics / Timothy P. Jackson.
CRITICAL INTERACTIONS . Kant and virtue ethics / Allen Wood -- The consequentialist critique of virtue ethics / Julia Driver -- Virtue ethics and right action: a critique / Ramon Das -- Virtue ethics and egoism / Christopher Toner -- Models of virtue / Nancy E. Snow -- The situationist critique / Lorraine Besser-Jones -- Testing the empathy-altruism hypothesis against egoistic alternatives / C. Daniel Batson -- Care ethics and virtue ethics / Nel Noddings -- Roles and virtues / J.L.A. Garcia.
APPLICATIONS OF VIRTUE ETHICS . Environmental virtue ethics / Philip Cafaro -- World virtue ethics / Stephen C. Angle -- Virtue ethics and moral education / Randall Curren -- Virtue ethics as political philosophy: the structure of ethical theory in early Chinese philosophy / Yang Xiao -- Law and virtue / Lawrence B. Solum -- Virtue ethics and medicine / Rebecca L. Walker -- Business ethics from a virtue-theoretic perspective / Robert Audi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

HISTORY OF VIRTUE ETHICS . Plato and the ethics of virtue / Nicholas White -- Aristotle's virtue ethics / Dorothea Frede -- The stoic theory of virtue / Tad Brennan -- Hindu virtue ethics / Roy W. Perrett and Glen Pettigrove -- Why Confucius' ethics is a virtue ethics / May Sim -- Mencius' virtue ethics meets the moral foundation theory: a comparison / Shirong Luo -- Virtue in Buddhist ethical traditions / Charles Goodman -- Respect for differences: the Daoist virtue / Yong Huang -- Xunzi and virtue ethics / Eric L. Hutton -- Consecrated virtue: Augustine's theological animus / James Wetzel -- Aquinas: infused virtues / Andrew Pinsent -- Hume / Jacqueline Taylor -- Nietzsche and the virtues / Edward Harcourt.

CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES . Eudaimonistic virtue ethics / Liezl van Zyl -- Sentimentalist virtue ethics / Michael L. Frazer and Michael Slote -- Pluralistic virtue ethics / Christine Swanton -- Varieties of contemporary Christian virtue ethics / Jennifer A. Herdt -- Contemporary Confucianism / David Elstein -- Virtue epistemology and virtue ethics / Heather Battaly and Michael Slote -- Feminist virtue ethics / Karen Stohr -- Agape and virtue ethics / Timothy P. Jackson.

CRITICAL INTERACTIONS . Kant and virtue ethics / Allen Wood -- The consequentialist critique of virtue ethics / Julia Driver -- Virtue ethics and right action: a critique / Ramon Das -- Virtue ethics and egoism / Christopher Toner -- Models of virtue / Nancy E. Snow -- The situationist critique / Lorraine Besser-Jones -- Testing the empathy-altruism hypothesis against egoistic alternatives / C. Daniel Batson -- Care ethics and virtue ethics / Nel Noddings -- Roles and virtues / J.L.A. Garcia.

APPLICATIONS OF VIRTUE ETHICS . Environmental virtue ethics / Philip Cafaro -- World virtue ethics / Stephen C. Angle -- Virtue ethics and moral education / Randall Curren -- Virtue ethics as political philosophy: the structure of ethical theory in early Chinese philosophy / Yang Xiao -- Law and virtue / Lawrence B. Solum -- Virtue ethics and medicine / Rebecca L. Walker -- Business ethics from a virtue-theoretic perspective / Robert Audi.

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