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Author Taylor, Richard, 1919-2003.

Title Virtue ethics : an introduction / Richard Taylor ; foreword by John Donnelly
Published Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2002

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Description 125 pages
Series Prometheus lecture series
Prometheus lecture series.
Contents Foreword / John Donnelly -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Two Approaches to Ethics -- Ch. 2. The Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Aspiration -- Ch. 3. The Ideas of Right and Wrong -- Ch. 4. The Emergence of Philosophy and Religion -- Pt. 2. The Ideals of Personal Excellence and Happiness -- Ch. 5. Greek Ethical Ideals -- Ch. 6. Socratic Ethics -- Ch. 7. The Idea of Natural Law -- Ch. 8. Cynics and Stoics -- Ch. 9. Platonism and Ethical Relativism -- Ch. 10. Aristotle's Ethics -- Pt. 3. Duty vs. Aspiration -- Ch. 11. The Foundation of the Ethics of Duty -- Ch. 12. Religion and the Concept of Moral Obligation -- Ch. 13. The Destruction of the Ideal of Virtue -- Ch. 14. The Religious Framework of Modern Ethics -- Ch. 15. The Virtue of Pride -- Ch. 16. Happiness
Notes Includes index
Subject Ethics.
Virtue.
Ethics, Ancient.
Virtue -- History.
Author Taylor, Richard, 1919-2003. Ethics, fath, and reason
LC no. 2002023608
ISBN 1573929433 paperback