A01=Robert A Heinaman
Abstract Singular Terms
account
agent
ancient moral philosophy
Aristotelian Ethical Theory
aristotle's
Aristotle's Function Argument
Aristotle's Moral Philosophy
Author_Robert A Heinaman
Bernard Williams
Category=QD
Category=QDTQ
Choiceworthy Life
combination
Commutative Justice
corrective
Corrective Justice
Courageous Person
David Charles
destructiveness
Eleventh Hour
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ethical objectivism
Eu Prattein
eudaimonist approach
Eudemian Ethics 1221b33
Good Life
Gospel's Parable
Human Destructiveness
irrational
Irrational Destructiveness
John McDowell
Jonathan Lear
justice
McDowell's Interpretation
objective foundation of ethics
optimal
philosophical realism
Pierre Aubenque
Pre-conceptual Stage
Rational Defensibility
Real Moral Properties
Robert Heinaman
Sabina Lovibond
sensibility theory
Successful Human Functioning
Thick Concepts
Thick Ethical Concepts
True Moral Statements
Vice Versa
virtue ethics theory
virtuous
Virtuous Agent
Product details
- ISBN 9780813391045
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume of essays brings together scholars of ancient philosophy and some of today's most distinguished moral philosophers to discuss Aristotle's ethics and the problems of moral realism. One of the central and perennial philosophical problems is the question of whether our ethical assertions and beliefs can be justifiably claimed to rest on some objective foundation. As an upholder of the objectivity of ethics and as one of the most important ethical thinkers in the history of philosophy, Aristotle's writings on these questions are of the greatest interest. Indeed, much of recent moral philosophy has looked directly to Aristotle for inspiration on the problem of moral objectivity. For example, "virtue theorists" were influenced by Aristotle in their proposal that what determines the right thing to do in a particular case is what the virtuous man would do. Similarly, "sensibility theorists" have found support for their view in Aristotle's remarks about the importance of the conditioning of one's desires for the development of virtue and knowledge about the human good.
Robert Heinaman is a lecturer in philosophy at the University College London.
