Morals from Motives
Published on 1. March 2001
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-19-513837-5 (ISBN)
Description
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by 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 and also (in its own terms) of social justice, and the book 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.
Reviews / Votes
Goes some way to correcting the ostrich-like tendencies of virtue ethics. * Gerald Lang, Times Literary Supplement * Michael Slote's book Morals from Motives fosters an admirable development in modern virtue ethics: the sense that virtue ethics is a genus (like consequentialism) having several species ... Morals from Motives is a fine example of a modern virtue ethics derived from the moral 'sentimentalism' of Hutcheson and Hume, as well as James Martineau ... Slote succeeds rather well in maintaining a clear focus throughout the book. * Mind *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
469 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513837-5 (9780195138375)
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Morals from Motives
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Content
PART I: MORALITY AND JUSTICE
ONE: Agent-Based Virtue Ethics
1: Virtue Ethics
2: Objections to Agent-Basing
3: Morality as Inner Strength
4: Morality as Universal Benevolence
5: Morality as Caring and Further Aspects of Agent-Basing
TWO: Morality and the Practical
1: Is Agent-basing Practical?
2: The Value of Conscientousness
3: Moral Conflict
THREE: The Structure of Caring
1: Caring and Love
2: Balanced Caring
3: Balanced Caring versus Aggregative Partialism
4: Self-Concern
5: Sentimentalist Deontology
6: Caring versus the Philosophers
FOUR: The Justice of Caring
1: From the Personal to the Political
2: Social Justice
3: Laws and Their Applications
4: Conclusion
FIVE: Universal Benevolence versus Caring
1: Universal Benevolence and Universal Love
2: The Justice of Universal Benevolence
3: Humanitarianism and Religious Belief
4: Humanitarianism and Intolerance
5: The Choice between Caring and Universal Benevolence
PART II: PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOOD
SIX: The Virtue in Self-Interest
1: Unification in Utilitarianism
2: Elevation versus Reduction
3: Is Elevation Viable?
4: Aristotelian Elevationism
5: Platonic Elevationism
6: Conclusion
SEVEN: Agent-Based Practical Reason
1: Conceptions of Practical Reason
2: Agent-Based Rationality
3: Practical Reason and Self-Interest
4: The Rational Requiements of Morality
5: Conclusion
EIGHT: Extending the Approach
1: Hyper-Agent-Basing
2: General Conclusion
Index
ONE: Agent-Based Virtue Ethics
1: Virtue Ethics
2: Objections to Agent-Basing
3: Morality as Inner Strength
4: Morality as Universal Benevolence
5: Morality as Caring and Further Aspects of Agent-Basing
TWO: Morality and the Practical
1: Is Agent-basing Practical?
2: The Value of Conscientousness
3: Moral Conflict
THREE: The Structure of Caring
1: Caring and Love
2: Balanced Caring
3: Balanced Caring versus Aggregative Partialism
4: Self-Concern
5: Sentimentalist Deontology
6: Caring versus the Philosophers
FOUR: The Justice of Caring
1: From the Personal to the Political
2: Social Justice
3: Laws and Their Applications
4: Conclusion
FIVE: Universal Benevolence versus Caring
1: Universal Benevolence and Universal Love
2: The Justice of Universal Benevolence
3: Humanitarianism and Religious Belief
4: Humanitarianism and Intolerance
5: The Choice between Caring and Universal Benevolence
PART II: PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOOD
SIX: The Virtue in Self-Interest
1: Unification in Utilitarianism
2: Elevation versus Reduction
3: Is Elevation Viable?
4: Aristotelian Elevationism
5: Platonic Elevationism
6: Conclusion
SEVEN: Agent-Based Practical Reason
1: Conceptions of Practical Reason
2: Agent-Based Rationality
3: Practical Reason and Self-Interest
4: The Rational Requiements of Morality
5: Conclusion
EIGHT: Extending the Approach
1: Hyper-Agent-Basing
2: General Conclusion
Index