Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by 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 and also (in its own terms) of social justice, and the book 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.
PART I: MORALITY AND JUSTICEONE: Agent-Based Virtue Ethics1: Virtue Ethics2: Objections to Agent-Basing3: Morality as Inner Strength4: Morality as Universal Benevolence5: Morality as Caring and Further Aspects of Agent-BasingTWO: Morality and the Practical1: Is Agent-basing Practical?2: The Value of Conscientousness3: Moral ConflictTHREE: The Structure of Caring1: Caring and Love2: Balanced Caring3: Balanced Caring versus Aggregative Partialism4: Self-Concern5: Sentimentalist Deontology6: Caring versus the PhilosophersFOUR: The Justice of Caring1: From the Personal to the Political2: Social Justice3: Laws and Their Applications4: ConclusionFIVE: Universal Benevolence versus Caring1: Universal Benevolence and Universal Love2: The Justice of Universal Benevolence3: Humanitarianism and Religious Belief4: Humanitarianism and Intolerance5: The Choice between Caring and Universal BenevolencePART II: PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOODSIX: The Virtue in Self-Interest1: Unification in Utilitarianism2: Elevation versus Reduction3: Is Elevation Viable?4: Aristotelian Elevationism5: Platonic Elevationism6: ConclusionSEVEN: Agent-Based Practical Reason1: Conceptions of Practical Reason2: Agent-Based Rationality3: Practical Reason and Self-Interest4: The Rational Requiements of Morality5: ConclusionEIGHT: Extending the Approach1: Hyper-Agent-Basing2: General ConclusionIndex
Goes some way to correcting the ostrich-like tendencies of virtue ethics.
Roger Crisp, Michael Slote, Oxford) Crisp, Roger (Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Maryland at College Park) Slote, Michael (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy
Marcia W. Baron, Philip Pettit, Michael A. Slote, Marcia W. (University of Illinois) Baron, Philip (Princeton University) Pettit, Michael A. (University of Maryland) Slote, Baron, Petit