Beyond Virtue: Integrity and Morality - Hardcover

Ramsay, Hayden

 
9780312174859: Beyond Virtue: Integrity and Morality

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Virtue ethics or natural law? Most contemporary accounts treat these as rival approaches. This book argues both are necessary since virtue is commitment to objective human goods. It also argues integrity is planning one's life by commitment to reasonableness, rejects traditional natural law and virtue ethics for more deontological accounts of the human good and virtue, and explains human personhood accordingly. Part 2 then analyzes Aquinas's accounts of emotion, the body and happiness in terms of integrity.

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Ramsay (LaTrobe U., Bundoora, Australia) argues for a neo- Kantian view of virtue as commitment to objective human good and against the traditional account of the virtues as dispositions. He explores the concept of integrity and its implications for various aspects of morality, including virtue, moral law, autonomy, and personhood, and analyzes ele

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