Morals from Motives

By Michael Slote

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195138376
• ISBN13: 9780195138375
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"