Perfecting Virtue
New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics

This book presents the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists in twelve new essays by internationally recognized leaders in both traditions.

Lawrence Jost (Edited by), Julian Wuerth (Edited by)

9780521515252, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 February 2011

326 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.65 kg

"...contributions to Perfecting Virtue are interesting and well-written, and for that reason alone the essays are worth reading. The primary value and relevance of the book however, lies less with the individual contributions, than with the combined effect of these essays on the reader..."
--Carsten Fogh Nielsen, Ph.D., University of Aarhus, Metapsychology Online Reviews

In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists has assumed an especially prominent position. The twelve newly commissioned essays in this volume, by leading scholars in both traditions, explore key aspects of each approach as related to the debate, and identify new common ground but also real and lasting differences between these approaches. The volume provides a rich overview of the continuing debate between two powerful forms of enquiry, and will be valuable for a wide range of students and scholars working in these fields.

Contributors
Method of citing Aristotle's works
Method of citing Kant's works
Introduction
1. Virtue ethics in relation to Kantian ethics: an opinionated overview and commentary Marcia Baron
2. What does the Aristotelian Phronimos know? Rosalind Hursthouse
3. Kant and agent-oriented ethics Allen Wood
4. The difference that ends make Barbara Herman
5. Two pictures of practical thinking Talbot Brewer
6. Moving beyond Kant's account of agency in the Grounding Julian Wuerth
7. A Kantian conception of human flourishing Lara Denis
8. Kantian perfectionism Paul Guyer
9. Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant on anger Nancy Sherman
10. Kant's impartial virtues of love Christine Swanton
11. The problem we all have with deontology Michael Slote
12. Intuition, system, and the 'paradox' of deontology Timothy Chappell
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]