Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy
By: Philippa Foot.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Ethics.
Other titles: Virtues and vices
Description: "Foot stands out among contemporary ethical theorists because of her conviction that virtues and vices are more central ethical notions than rights, duties, justice, or consequences--the primary focus of most other contemporary moral theorists. This volume brings together a dozen essays published between 1957 and 1977, and includes two new ones as well. In the first, Foot argues explicitly for an ethic of virtue, and in the next five discusses abortion, euthanasia, free will/determination, and the ethics of Hume and Nietzsche. The final eight essays chart her growing disenchantment with emotivism and prescriptivism and t heir account of moral arguments. All the essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue. Foot's style is straightforward and readable, her arguments subtle, ingenious, and some of them important."--Choice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1978. With new pref. and index.
Table of contents: title: Virtues and vices; title: The problem of abortion and the doctrine of the double effect; title: Euthanasia; title: Free will as involving determinism; title: Hume on moral judgement; title: Nietzsche, the revaluation of values; title: Moral arguments; title: Moral beliefs; title: Goodness and choice; title: Reasons for action and desires; title: Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives; title: A reply to Professor Frankena; title: Are moral considerations overriding?; title: Approval and disapproval.