Contemporary Virtue Ethics

An overview of the central components of recent work in virtue ethics.

Nancy E. Snow (Author)

9781108706339, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 October 2020

75 pages
22.8 x 15 x 0.3 cm, 0.11 kg

This Element provides an overview of the central components of recent work in virtue ethics. The first section explores central themes in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, while the second turns the discussion to major alternative theoretical perspectives. The third section focuses on two challenges to virtue ethics. The first challenge is the self-centeredness or egoism objection, which is the notion that certain kinds of virtue ethics are inadequate because they advocate a focus on the person's own virtue and flourishing at the expense of, or at least without due regard for, the concerns of others. The second is situationist challenges to the ideas that there are indeed virtues and that personality is integrated enough to support virtues.

Introduction
1. Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
2. Alternatives to Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
3. Objections to Virtue Ethics
Concluding Comments
Acknowledgements
References.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy [HP]