Morals from Motives

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ISBN: 9780195170207 | 0195170202
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Copyright: 10/2/2003

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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

ONE Agent-Based Virtue Ethics

(35)

1. Virtue Ethics

(7)

2. Objections to Agent-Basing

(9)

3. Morality as Inner Strength

(4)

4. Morality as Universal Benevolence

(6)

5. Morality as Caring and Further Aspects of Agent Basing

(9)

TWO Morality and the Practical

(25)

1. Is Agent-Basing Practical?

(13)

2. The Value of Conscientiousness

(7)

3. Moral Conflict

(5)

THREE The Structure of Caring

(29)

1. Caring and Love

(5)

2. Balanced Caring

(5)

3. Balanced Caring versus Aggregative Partialisen

(3)

4. Self Concern

(2)

5. Sentimentalist Deontology

(9)

6. Caring versus the Philosophers

(4)

FOUR The Justice of Caring

(22)

1. From the Personal to the Political

(6)

2. Social Justice

(4)

3. Laws and Their Application

103

(6)

4. Conclusion

109

(5)

FIVE Universal Benevolence versus Caring

114

(27)

1. Universal Benevolence and Universal Love

115

(4)

2. The Justice of Universal Benevolence

119

(2)

3. Humanitarianism and Religious Belief

121

(10)

4. Humanitarianism and Intolerance

131

(5)

5. The Choice between Caring and Universal Benevolence

136

(5)

PART II. PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND HUMAN GOOD

SIX The Virtue in Self-Interest

141

(28)

1. Unification in Utilitarianism

142

(3)

2. Elevation versus Reduction

145

(4)

3. Is Elevationism Viable?

149

(3)

4. Aristotelian Elevationism

152

(3)

5. Platonic Elevationism

155

(11)

6. Conclusion

166

(3)

SEVEN Agent-Based Practical Reason

169

(28)

1. Conceptions of Practical Reason

169

(2)

2. Agent-Based Rationality

171

(9)

3. Practical Reason and Self Interest

180

(4)

4. The Rational Requirements of Morality

184

(7)

5. Conclusion

191

(6)

EIGHT Extending the Approach

197

(16)

1. Hyper-Agent-Basing

197

(13)

2. General Conclusion

210

(3)

Index

213

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