Rethinking Virtue Ethics

Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a fresh model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm. This book argues that, contrary to what many contemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with the idea that at least some action-guiding moral principles are true unconditionally, and that a justification for these principles can be grounded in fundamental concepts within Aristotle s theory.
This unique interpretation of virtue ethics has implications for several areas including: recent discussions of the virtues in social psychology, issues about altruism and egoism, questions are inalienable rights, and debates about moral particularism, moral realism, and moral epistemology.