About this title: The principal objective of this treatise is to argue that "virtue ethics" should be seen as a foundational theory which accounts more accurately for a range of ideas about value, choice, obligation and rational action than Kantian ethics, common-sense ethics or utilitarianism. The author believes that while utilitarianism can provide one way of resolving certain difficulties, it is not without its own serious problems. Virtue ethics, on the other hand, provide a more cogent account of the original difficulties, avoid the problems that utilitarianism brings up and dispells the incoherencies of ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195093926ISBN:0195093925
Description: Very Good. 0195093925 VERY NICE BOOK-DEDICATED-DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED INCLUDED DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195093926ISBN:0195093925
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 208x139. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (288) slote offers in this book the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. advocating a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, slote argues that a contemporarily plausible version of virtue ethics can be achieved ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195093926ISBN:0195093925
Description: New. In this book, Michael Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the topic. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advant... read more
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