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Book SynopsisChristine Swanton presents a new target centred virtue ethics, which is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways. She rejects the 'natural goodness' metaphysics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics in favour of a 'hermeneutic ontology' of ethics, and she offers a new target centred framework for assessing rightness of acts.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Basic View PART I Metaphysics 1: A New Metaphysics for Virtue Ethics 2: The Worldhood of Ethics 3: The Concealment of Ethics 4: Thick Concept Centralism and Objectivity PART II Nature 5: Eudaimonistic versus Target Centred Virtue Ethics 6: Basic Virtue and Differentiated Virtue 7: Target Centred Virtue Ethics and Role Ethics 8: Developmental Virtue Ethics 9: Pluralistic Virtue Ethics PART III Application 10: Has Virtue Ethics Sold Out? 11: A Particularist but Codifiable Virtue Ethics 12: The Wrong Logos: Paradoxes of Practical Reason 13: An Epistemology for Target Centred Virtue Ethics Bibliography Index
