Morals from Motives
- ISBN-10
- 0190207930
- ISBN-13
- 9780190207939
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-02-15
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Michael Slote
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.
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