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Essays on the History of Ethics (Hardcover)
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Essays on the History of Ethics (Hardcover)
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In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his
essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical
thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and
contrasts among different views. Arranged in chronological order of
the philosopher under discussion, the relationship between ancient
ethical theory and modern moral philosophy is a major theme of
several of the papers and, in particular, Plato, Aristotle, Hume,
Kant, and/or utilitarianism feature centrally in (most of) the
discussions.
One essay seeks to show that there are three main ways to conceive
the relationship between human well-being and virtue: one is
dualistic a la Kant (they are disparate notions); one is the sort
of reductionism familiar from the history of utilitarianismm; and
one, not previously named by philosophers, is implicit in the
approach the Stoics, Plato, and Aristotle take (in their different
ways) to the topic of virtue and well-being. Slote names this third
approach "elevationism" and argue that it is more promising than
either reductionism or dualism.
Two of the essays are narrowly focused on Hume's ethics, and one
seeks to show that even Kant's opponents have reason to accept a
number of important and original Kantian ideas. Finally, the two
last essays in the volume talk about ethical thought during the
last half of the twentieth century and the first few years of the
twenty-first, arguing that the care ethics of Carol Gilligan and
Nel Noddings has a distinctive and important contribution to make
to ongoing ethical theorizing--and to our understanding of the
history of ethics as well.
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