Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel
Author | : Gary Pendlebury |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 0754636399 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780754636397 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Download or read book Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel written by Gary Pendlebury and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.