Works Righteousness: Material Practice in Ethical Theory

by Anna Lisa Peterson

In Works Righteousness, Anna L. Peterson examines the place of practice in contemporary ethical theory. Peterson argues that rather than assuming that pre-established moral ideas guide action, ethicists should acknowledge and explore the relationship between ideas, actions, and results. Both an analysis of alternative models in which practice plays a stronger role and an argument for taking practice more seriously in broad questions of ethics as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197532233
• ISBN13: 9780197532232
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"