num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Morals from Motives
titlecomplete: Morals from Motives
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Oxford University Press