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.
PART I: MORALITY AND JUSTICE; PART II: PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOOD
"Revivals of virtue ethics usually take their cue from Aristotle and the Stoics. Not so Michael Slote's stimulating new book Morals from Motives, which instead develops virtue ethics approaches inspired, respectively, by the British sentimentalism of Hutcheson and the feminist ethics of care...[A]n ambitious and ground-breaking approach...surprising if this book did not generate significant interest in agent-based forms of virtue ethics."--Michael Brady, Philosophical Quarterly
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