Switch to: Citations

Add references

You must login to add references.
  1. (4 other versions)Nicomachean Ethics.Martin Aristotle & Ostwald - 1911 - New York: Hackett Publishing Company. Edited by C. C. W. Taylor.
    C. C. W. Taylor presents a clear and faithful new translation of one of the most famous and influential texts in the history of Western thought, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character, which is central to his ethical theory as a whole and a key topic in much modern ethical writing.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   435 citations  
  • The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue.Jiyuan Yu - 2007 - New York: Routledge.
    As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   46 citations  
  • (7 other versions)Utilitarianism.J. S. Mill - 1861 - Oxford University Press UK. Edited by Roger Crisp.
    Introduction to one of the most important, controversial, and suggestive works of moral philosophy ever written.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   576 citations  
  • (1 other version)After Virtue.A. MacIntyre - 1981 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (1):169-171.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1810 citations  
  • The Cambridge Companion to Socrates.Louis-andré Dorion, Klaus Döring, David K. O'connor, David Konstan, Palu Woodruff & Mark L. Mcpherran - 2010 - Cambridge University Press.
    The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is thus a literary figure as well as a historical person. Both aspects of Socrates' legacy are covered in this volume. Socrates' character is full of paradox, and so are his philosophical views. These paradoxes have led (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Xunzi: Basic Writings.Burton Watson (ed.) - 2003 - Columbia University Press.
    Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession, and observance of ritual in life. Readers familiar with Xunzi's work will find that Burton Watson's lucid translation breathes new life into this classic. Those new to Xunzi will find his (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  • The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics.Daniel C. Russell (ed.) - 2013 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  • Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View.Christine Swanton - 2003 - Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    This book offers a comprehensive virtue ethics that breaks from the tradition of eudaimonistic virtue ethics. In developing a pluralistic view, it shows how different ’modes of moral response’ such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity are all central to the virtuous response and thereby to ethics. It offers virtue ethical accounts of the good life, objectivity, rightness, demandingness, and moral epistemology.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   153 citations  
  • Virtue and Eudaimonism.Julia Annas - 1998 - Social Philosophy and Policy 15 (1):37.
    The two most important and central concepts in ancient ethical theory are those of virtue and happiness. This is well-known by now, as is the way that many scholars and philosophers have in recent years investigated the structure of ancient ethical theories, at least partly in the hope that this would help us in our modern ethical thinking by introducing us to developed theories which escape the problems that have led to so much frustration with deontological and consequentialist approaches. And (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   17 citations  
  • Confucius and mencius on the motivation to be moral.Yong Huang - 2010 - Philosophy East and West 60 (1):pp. 65-87.
    Focusing on the Analects and the Mencius, this article attempts to provide a Confucian answer to "why be moral?"—a question about the motivation to be moral that is neither tautological nor self-contradictory, as some philosophers claim. The Confucian answer to this question is that to be moral is joyful. While one may find joy in doing non-moral and even immoral things, one ought to seek joy in being moral or at least in being not immoral, as being moral is uniquely (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  • (6 other versions)Utilitarianism.John Stuart Mill - 2000 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press USA.
    John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is one of the most important, controversial, and suggestive works of moral philosophy ever written. Mill defends the view that all human action should produce the greatest happiness overall, and that happiness itself is to be understood as consisting in "higher" and "lower" pleasures. This volume uses the 1871 edition of the text, the last to be published in Mill's lifetime. The text is preceded by a comprehensive introduction assessing Mill's philosophy and the alternatives to utilitarianism, (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   205 citations  
  • Natural goodness.Philippa Foot - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   351 citations  
  • On Virtue Ethics.Rosalind Hursthouse - 1999 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late twentieth-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse, who has made notable contributions to this development, here presents a full exposition and defense of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics. She shows how virtue ethics can provide guidance for action, illuminate moral dilemmas, and bring out the moral significance of the emotions.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   642 citations  
  • (6 other versions)Utilitarianism.John Stuart Mill - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, providing the student with detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   49 citations  
  • (4 other versions)Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.Immanuel Kant & James W. Ellington - 1981 - Hackett.
    In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especially for students. An extensive and comprehensive introduction explains the central concepts of Groundwork and looks at Kant's main lines of argument. Detailed notes aim to clarify Kant's thoughts and to correct some commonmisunderstandings (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   188 citations  
  • Structured Inclusivism about Human Flourishing: A Mengzian Formulation.Matthew D. Walker - 2013 - In Stephen C. Angle & Michael Slote (eds.), Virtue Ethics and Confucianism. New York: Routledge. pp. 94-102.
    I briefly defend the philosophical cogency of inclusivism about human flourishing, the view that intrinsic goods are valuable for the sake of flourishing by somehow composing flourishing. In particular, I consider the stuctured inclusivist view that intrinsic goods are components of flourishing as body parts are components of a body. As a test case, I examine the conception of human flourishing offered by the early Confucian philosopher Mengzi (Mencius). I argue that by appealing to Mengzi’s account, one can respond to (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  • 7 Virtue ethics in the twentieth century.Miranda Fricker Crisp, Brad Hooker, Simon Kirchin, Kelvin Knight, Adrian Moore & Daniel C. Russell - 2013 - In Daniel C. Russell (ed.), The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  • The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics'.John McDowell - 1980 - In Amélie Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle's Ethics. University of California Press. pp. 359--76.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   49 citations  
  • (1 other version)Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications.Kam-por Yu, Julia Tao & Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.) - 2010 - SUNY.
    A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  • Response to angle and Slote.Bryan W. Van Norden - 2009 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8 (3):305-309.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  • Heaven as a source for ethical warrant in early confucianism.Philip J. Ivanhoe - 2007 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 6 (3):211-220.
    Contrary to what several prominent scholars contend, a number of important early Confucians ground their ethical claims by appealing to the authority of tian, Heaven, insisting that Heaven endows human beings with a distinctive ethical nature and at times acts in the world. This essay describes the nature of such appeals in two early Confucian texts: the Lunyu (Analects) and Mengzi (Mencius). It locates this account within a larger narrative that begins with some of the earliest conceptions of a supreme (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   20 citations  
  • What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being.Richard Kraut - 2007 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
    What is good, how do we know, and how important is it? In this book, one of our most respected analytical philosophers reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish. Observing that we can sensibly address what is good for plants and animals no less than what is good for people, Kraut applies a general principle to the entire living world: what is good for complex organisms consists in the exercise of their natural powers.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   142 citations  
  • Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius.May Sim - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Aristotle and Confucius are pivotal figures in world history; nevertheless, Western and Eastern cultures have in modern times largely abandoned the insights of these masters. Remastering Morals provides a book-length scholarly comparison of the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius. May Sim's comparisons offer fresh interpretations of the central teachings of both men. More than a catalog of similarities and differences, her study brings two great traditions into dialog so that each is able to learn from the other. This is essential (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   49 citations  
  • Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times.Joseph Cho Wai Chan - 2014 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance that can retain the spirit of the Confucian ideal while tackling problems arising from nonideal modern situations. The best way to meet this challenge, Joseph Chan argues, is to adopt liberal democratic institutions that are shaped by the Confucian conception of the good rather than the liberal conception of the (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   61 citations  
  • Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. [REVIEW]Kwong-Loi Shun - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (3):717-719.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   62 citations  
  • The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics.Michael Slote - 2011 - , US: Oxford University Press.
    Introduction -- Feminism and partial values -- The impossibility of perfection -- Alternative views -- Perfection, moral dilemmas, and moral cost -- Connections with care ethics and romanticism -- Relational profiles of goods and virtues -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Men's philosophy, women's philosophy.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   9 citations  
  • (3 other versions)Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View.Christine Swanton - 2006 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 31:75-77.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   172 citations  
  • (1 other version)Euthydemus. Plato - 2011 - Newburyport, MA: Kessinger Publishing. Edited by Gregory A. McBrayer, Mary P. Nichols & Denise Schaeffer.
    We contrived at last, somehow or other, to agree in a general conclusion, that he who had wisdom had no need of fortune.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  • Three ways of thought in ancient China.Arthur Waley - 1939 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by Zhuangzi, Mencius & Fei Han.
    . . . The book is enhanced by the polished and lucid style of Mr. Waley's translations.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   28 citations  
  • (1 other version)Natural Goodness.Philippa Foot - 2001 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (3):604-606.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   381 citations  
  • Euthydemus. Plato - 1965 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 162:39-39.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   21 citations  
  • I Virtue ethics, happiness, and the good life.Daniel C. Russell - 2013 - In The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 7.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  • Symposion: Griechisch Und Deutsch.H. G. Platon - 1989 - De Gruyter.
    Seit 1923 erscheinen in der Sammlung Tusculum ma gebende Editionen griechischer und lateinischer Werke mit deutscher bersetzung. Die Originaltexte werden zudem eingeleitet und umfassend kommentiert; nach der neuen Konzeption bieten schlie lich thematische Essays tiefere Einblicke in das Werk, seinen historischen Kontext und sein Nachleben. Die hohe wissenschaftliche Qualit t der Ausgaben, gepaart mit dem leserfreundlichen Sprachstil der Einf hrungs- und Kommentarteile, macht jeden Tusculum-Band zu einer fundamentalen Lekt re nicht nur f r Studierende, die sich zum ersten Mal einem (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  • (3 other versions)Symposium.C. J. Plato & Rowe - 1994 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Robin Waterfield.
    In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. And then into the party bursts the drunken Alcibiades, the (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   78 citations  
  • (1 other version)Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage.Lee H. Yearly - 1994 - Philosophy East and West 44 (1):169-175.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   74 citations  
  • (1 other version)Natural Goodness.Philippa Foot & Peter Geach - 2002 - Philosophical Quarterly 52 (209):621-631.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   176 citations  
  • Comments on Bryan Van Norden’s Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy.Michael Slote - 2009 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8 (3):289-295.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations