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Target Centred Virtue Ethics (Hardcover)
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Virtue ethics in its contemporary manifestation is dominated by neo
Aristotelian virtue ethics primarily developed by Rosalind
Hursthouse. This version of eudaimonistic virtue ethics was ground
breaking, but has been subject to considerable critical attention.
Christine Swanton shows that the time is ripe for new developments
and alternatives. The target centred virtue ethics proposed by
Swanton is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways.
First, it rejects the 'natural goodness' metaphysics of Neo
Aristotelian virtue ethics owed to Philippa Foot in favour of a
'hermeneutic ontology' of ethics inspired by the Continental
tradition and McDowell. Second, it rejects the well -known
'qualified agent' account of right action made famous by Hursthouse
in favour of a target centred framework for assessing rightness of
acts. Swanton develops the target centred view with discussions of
Dancy's particularism, default reasons and thick concepts,
codifiability, and its relation to the Doctrine of the mean. Target
Centred Virtue Ethics retains the pluralism of Virtue Ethics: A
Pluralistic View (2003) but develops it further in relation to a
pluralistic account of practical reason. This study develops other
substantive positions including the view that target centred virtue
ethics is developmental, suitably embedded in an environmental
ethics of "dwelling"; and incorporates a concept of differentiated
virtue to allow for roles, narrativity, cultural and historical
location, and stage of life.
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