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  • Care Ethics and Beyond

    Moral, Epistemological, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Seisuke Hayakawa, Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume boldly expands intellectual horizons on care and the ethics of care. Centered on human emotionality and interdependence, the ethics of care was developed in the 1980s by feminists Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings.Bringing together important insights from different areas of philosophy, the contributors of this volume engage in two vibrant dialogues, offering a unique and timely ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Philosophical Essays East and West

    Agent-Based Virtue Ethics and other topics at the intersection of Chinese thought and Western analytic philosophy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book is a much-expanded version of the Kuang-Yi Liu Lectures in Chinese Philosophy the author delivered in Taiwan in December 2022. The book brings together essays on Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and the proposed interaction between them. The purpose is not mainly exegetical or descriptive; the book seeks to expand our philosophical understanding in various directions. Philosophical ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Morals from Motives

    by Michael Slote ...
    Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • From Morality to Virtue

    by Michael Slote ...
    In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy

    The Turn toward Virtue

    Edited by Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa ...
    This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world’s leading epistemologists and ethicists—located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia—to explore in a global context what they are calling, "the virtue turn." The 15 chapters have never been published ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Moral Sentimentalism

    by Michael Slote ...
    There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Essays on the History of Ethics

    by Michael Slote ...
    In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views. Arranged in chronological order of the philosopher under discussion, the relationship between ancient ethical theory and modern moral philosophy is a major theme of several ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

    Edited by Michael Slote, Lorraine Besser-Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Just as significantly, several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Human Development and Human Life

    by Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like. While the first part looks at human development and change, the second part of the book explores what all human lives are like.Philosophical ideas and methods are central to this book, although it is difficult to subcategorize it into any ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Virtue Ethics and Confucianism

    Edited by Stephen Angle, Michael Slote ...
    This volume presents the fruits of an extended dialogue among American and Chinese philosophers concerning the relations between virtue ethics and the Confucian tradition. Based on recent advances in English-language scholarship on and translation of Confucian philosophy, the book demonstrates that cross-tradition stimulus, challenge, and learning are now eminently possible. Anyone interested in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Education and Human Values

    Reconciling Talent with an Ethics of Care

    by Michael Slote ...
    Two of our greatest educational theorists, John Dewey and Nel Noddings, have been reluctant to admit that some students are simply more talented than others. This was no doubt due to their feeling that such an admission was inconsistent with democratic concern for everyone. But there really is such a thing as superior talent; and the present book explains how that admission is compatible with our ... Read more

    $63.99 USD