Working Virtue
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-957086-7 (ISBN)
Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness (heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These character traits must be looked to in any attempt to understand which particular actions are right or wrong and how we ought to live our lives. As a theoretical approach, virtue ethics has made an impressive comeback in relatively recent history, both posing an alternative to, and, in some ways, complementing well-known theoretical stances such as utilitarianism and deontology. Yet there is still very little material available that presents virtue-ethical approaches to practical contemporary moral problems, such as what we owe distant strangers, our parents, or even non-human animals. This book fills the gap by dealing with these and other pressing moral problems in a clear and theoretically nuanced manner.
The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative, and stoic. This variety allows the reader to appreciate not only the wide range of topics for which a virtue-ethical approach may be fitting, but also the distinctive ways in which such an approach may be manifested.
Rebecca Walker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Philip Ivanhoe is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong.
1. Introduction ; 2. Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching ; 3. Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics and the Retrieval of Professionalism ; 4. Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness ; 5. Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of Psychiatry ; 6. Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues ; 7. Environmental Virtue Ethics ; 8. The Good Life for Nonhuman Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans ; 9. Law, Morality, and Virtue ; 10. Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business Ethics ; 11. Racial Virtues ; 12. Virtue and a Warrior's Anger ; 13. Famine, Affluence and Virtue ; 14. Filial Piety as a Virtue
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.7.2009 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-957086-8 / 0199570868 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-957086-7 / 9780199570867 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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