Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel
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Account Character
Aristotle's Teleology
Author_Gary Pendlebury
Book III
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Causal Entailment
character formation
critique of analytical moral philosophy
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ethical community
Greek Ethical Life
Hegel's Complaint
Hegel's Discussion
Human Beings Existence
Involuntary Distinction
Le Diable
Licentious Person
Modern Moral Philosophy
Modern Philosophical Debate
moral psychology
Natural Innocence
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normative ethics
Orthos Logos
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practical reason
Practical Syllogism
Practical Truth
Provide Action Guidance
social ontology
Unsophisticated Heart
Vice Versa
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- ISBN 9781138266339
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human beings actually think and conduct themselves, Pendlebury, instead, suggests a ’Virtue Ethics’ inspired by Hegel’s and Aristotle’s accounts of action as a corrective to this trend, showing that moral activity is historically and socially based and must address the formed character of individual agents. This trend, which began with the responses by Locke, Hume and Kant to Descartes’ Meditations, rendered moral philosophy individualistic and psychologistic in contrast to Aristotle and Hegel’s claim that man is essentially a social creature. Pendlebury argues that this should be the starting point of any account and understanding of morality which roots the concept of will in the practical activity involved in being a member of an ethical community rather than an abstract metaphysical entity that is supposedly in the possession of individuals. In providing a critique of modern moral philosophy from this perspective, Pendlebury’s line of enquiry lends much support to ’Virtue Ethics’ as exemplified in the work of Hursthouse and Slote, while taking a more combative approach with those with whom he disputes. In doing so he shows that serious considerations of continental philosophy highlights the richness of moral activity absent from ’analytical’ tradition which for so long has been bent on marginalizing it.
Dr Gary Pendlebury is Associate Lecturer of Philosophy for the Open University in the East Midlands, UK.
