Virtue and Action

Rosalind Hursthouse is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. She has held visiting positions at the University of California, Los Angeles (1981, 1983), the University of California, San Diego (1988, 1989), the University of Auckland (1991), the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1993), Stanford (1996), and the University of California, Berkeley as Mills Distinguished Visiting Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity (2004). In 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her work has played an integral role in establishing virtue ethics as a distinctive approach in ethical theory and remains influential in the field today. She published her notable work, On Virtue Ethics, with Oxford University Press in 1999.Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, at the University of Arizona. She is the founding Editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has published many titles with Oxford University Press, including Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond (2017), Intelligent Virtue (2011) and Plato: A Very Short Introduction (2003).Jeremy Reid is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has written chapters on Plato for the works Plato's Symposium: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy (Routledge, 2019).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionJulia Annas and Jeremy Reid: BibliographyI. ARISTOTLE AND ANCIENT VIRTUE ETHICS1: The Central Doctrine of the Mean2: Practical Wisdom: A Mundane Account3: What Does the Aristotelian Phronimos Know?4: Aristotle for Women Who Love Too Much5: Excessiveness and Our Natural DevelopmentII. NORMATIVE VIRTUE ETHICS6: Virtue Theory and Abortion7: Are the Virtues the Proper Starting Point for Morality?8: Discussing Dilemmas9: Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing10: Applying Virtue Ethics to Our Treatment of the Other Animals11: Environmental Virtue EthicsIII. ACTION THEORY, POLITICS, AND NATURALISM12: Virtuous Action13: Arational Actions14: Hume on Justice15: After Hume's Justice16: The Good and Bad Family17: On the Grounding of the Virtues in Human Nature18: Human Nature and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics19: The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical NaturalismIndex