Morals from Motives
| Author | : Michael Slote |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2001-02-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780190207939 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0190207930 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (930 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Morals from Motives by : Michael Slote
Download or read book Morals from Motives written by Michael Slote and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.