Morals from Motives
- ISBN-10
- 0199833699
- ISBN-13
- 9780199833696
- Category
- Agent (Philosophy)
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Author
- Michael A. Slote
Description
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by moral sentimentalism than by influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded 'morality of caring' can offer a general account of right and wrong action.
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