Titlebook: Rethinking Virtue Ethics; Michael Winter Book 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 Aristotle.Ethical Theory.Inalienable Rights.M

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A Sketch of an Aristotelian Science of Ethics,e the type of deductive framework needed to derive action-guiding moral principles from more general principles about human beings, their dispositions and features of their actions. The chapter ends with some ideas about the goals of ethical inquiry.

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Book 2012tation of virtue ethics has implications for recent discussions of the virtues in social psychology, issues about how fundamental moral principles are known, questions about the justification of inalienable rights, debates about moral particularism and generalism, and discussions of moral realism and anti-realism. .

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Introduction,native. Some have taken Aristotle’s virtue theory to offer a promising model for moral particularism, versions of which could reasonably be taken to offer extreme flexibility (Dancy 1993; McDowell 1988; Nussbaum 1990).

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Moral Realism and Virtue Ethics,ce, which challenges the long-standing assumption.? Lastly, many understand Aristotle’s ethics as being based on a teleological conception of human nature to be a serious reason to dismiss the theory.? Each of these objections is considered and responses are offered.

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Book 2012ntemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with at least some action-guiding moral principles being true unconditionally, and that a justification for general moral principles can be grounded in fundamental concepts within Aristotle’s theory. An analysis of

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Introduction,t by scholars of Aristotle and by ethical theorists without classical training, has helped place virtue theory among the prominent ethical theories on the table in the English-speaking world today. One significant advantage of an Aristotelian virtue-based theory is the flexibility its focus on chara

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Moral Realism and Virtue Ethics,al science, from ethical theory and from the philosophy of biology. Many have thought that Aristotle’s remarks about the lack of precision in ethics have implications that undermine the deductive approach developed in this book.?? An additional concern is that character-based ethics is wrong-headed

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A Sketch of an Aristotelian Science of Ethics,o help identify and clarify some of the key ideas at the foundations of ethics. Next, an analysis of for-the-most-part relationships in Aristotle is offered. The success of constructing a realist model of virtue ethics deductively rests in part on providing an analysis of for-the-most-part relations