Michael Slote

Biographic Data

ID984200
NAMEMichael Slote
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMESlote
SIGNATURESLOTE M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Miami
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • Philosophical Essays East and West

    Open AccessMichael SloteBOOKPhilosophical Essays East and West2023

    This book brings together essays on Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and the proposed interaction between them.

  • Philosophical Essays East and West

    Michael SloteBOOKPhilosophical Essays East and West2023

  • Care Ethics and Chinese Philosophy

    Michael SloteARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2023

    Care ethics has developed in many ways since Carol Gilligan introduced the idea of such an ethics in her classic 1982 book In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (Harvard University Press). Its reach has been extended, for example, to issues of overall social justice and to many other more specific political/legal issues. And its relation to non-Western ethical thinking has also been noted and discussed. In this essay,…

  • Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism

    Michael Slote, Michael A SloteBOOKCommon-Sense Morality and…2020

    Originally published in 1985 and now re-issued with a new preface, this study assesses the two major moral theories of ethical consequentialism and common-sense morality by means of mutual comparison and an attempt to elicit the implications and tendencies of each theory individually. The author shows that criticisms and defences of common-sense morality and of consequentialism give inadequate characterizations of the dispute between them and thu…

  • Between Psychology and Philosophy

    Open AccessMichael SloteBOOKBetween Psychology and Philosophy2019

    This open access book discusses a variety of unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. It uses insights from psychology to develop philosophical accounts of emotion, empathy, and human development. It shows that philosophy of mind requires recognition of emotion

  • Integrating Chinese with western philosophy

    Michael SloteARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2019Cited by: 1

    This volume contains essays that discuss and/or involve dialogue between East and West, and the editors clearly have sought to encourage this sort of dialogue through the essays collected here. But such encouragement seems ultimately directed to a larger goal: some kind of integration between Western and Eastern philosophy, a process or development that reaches beyond long-separate traditions toward a genuine “world philosophy.” My own recent wor…

  • Moral self-cultivation East and West

    Michael SloteARTICLEJournal of Moral Education2016

    Moral Self-Cultivation plays an important, even a central role, in the Confucian philosophical tradition, but philosophers in the West, most notably Aristotle and Kant, also hold that moral self-cultivation or self-shaping is possible and morally imperative. This paper argues that these traditions are psychologically unrealistic in what they say about the possibilities of moral self-cultivation. We cannot shape ourselves in the substantial and ov…

  • Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy

    Mi Chienkuo, Chienkuo Mi et al.BOOKMoral and Intellectual Virtues in…2015

  • Virtue Ethics and Confucianism

    Stephen C Angle, Stephen Angle et al.BOOKVirtue ethics and Confucianism2013

    Part One: Debating the Scope and Applicability of Virtue and Virtue Ethics 1.1 Chen Lai Virtue Ethics and Confucian Ethics 1.2 Philip J. Ivanhoe Virtue Ethics and the Chinese Confucian Tradition 1.3 Lee Ming-huei Confucianism, Kant, and Virtue Ethics 1.4 Bryan Van Norden Toward a Synthesis of Confucianism and Aristotelianism 1.5 Liu Liangjian Virtue Ethics and Confucianism: A Methdological Reflection 1.6 Wong Wai-ying Confucian Ethics and Virtue …

  • Response to Francis Schrag’s Review of Education and Human Values

    Open AccessMichael SloteARTICLEStudies in Philosophy and Education2013

  • From Enlightenment to Receptivity

    Michael SloteBOOKFrom Enlightenment to Receptivity2013Cited by: 2

    This revolutionary book argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently, the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in From Enlightenment to Receptivity: Rethinking Our Values, the …

  • Reflections on How We Live - Annette C. Baier

    Michael SloteARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2011

    As Annette Baier herself notes in her Preface, this book is about ethics in a very broad sense. The sixteen separate chapters, some of which have been previously published, are more like the essays of old than like typical present‐day journal articles. The style is relaxed, in some cases even rambling or impressionistic, but some distinctive theses are defended in interesting ways. Rather than try to review the separate chapters, I shall focus on…

  • The Impossibility of PerfectionAristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics

    Michael Slote, Michael A SloteBOOKThe impossibility of perfection2011Cited by: 3

    Most people think that the difficulty of balancing career and personal/family relationships is the fault of present-day society or is due to their own inadequacies. Michael Slote argues that the difficulty runs much deeper, that it is due to the essential nature of the divergent goods involved in this kind of choice

  • Sentimentalist moral education

    Open AccessMichael SloteARTICLETheory and Research in Education2010

    Care ethics, and moral sentimentalism more generally, have not developed a picture of moral education that is comparable in scope or depth to the rationalist/Kantian/Rawlsian account of moral education that has been offered by Lawrence Kohlberg. But it is possible to do so if one borrows from the work of Martin Hoffman and makes systematic use of Hume’s earlier sentimentalist ideas. Kohlberg and Rawls offer accounts of moral learning that leave m…

  • The Mandate of Empathy

    Open AccessMichael SloteARTICLEDao2010

  • Comments on Bryan Van Norden’s Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy

    Open AccessMichael SloteARTICLEDao2009

  • Selected essays

    Michael Slote, Michael Anthony SloteBOOKSelected essays2009

  • Moral Sentimentalism

    Michael Slote, Michael A SloteBOOKMoral sentimentalism2009Cited by: 5

    There has been a great deal of interest in moral sentimentalism in recent years, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence, caring, and compassion and their place in the moral life. This book seeks to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so primarily in terms of the notion of empathy. Hume tried to do something like this more than tw…

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    Michael Slote, Michael A SloteBOOKThe ethics of care and empathy2007

    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 allows care ethics to develop its own sentimentalist…

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    Michael SloteBOOKThe Ethics of Care and Empathy2007

    In The Ethics of Care and Empathy, 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 allows care ethic…

  • Moral Sentimentalism and Moral Psychology

    Michael Slote, David CoppCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of ethical…2005

    Moral sentimentalism holds that moral sentiment is the source of moral judgment and moral motivation. It contrasts with rationalism, which puts reason in place of sentiment. Sentimentalism goes hand in hand with a virtue theoretic approach in normative ethics. In the version of sentimentalism defended here, the chief moral sentiment is empathic concern. The chaper argues that moral goodness consists in empathic concern for others. Moreover, it ar…

  • Driver's Virtues

    Open AccessMichael SloteARTICLEUtilitas2004Cited by: 1

    Julia Driver's Uneasy Virtue offers a theory of virtue and the virtues without being an instance of virtue ethics. It presents a consequentialist challenge to recent virtue ethics, but its positive views – and especially its interesting examples – have great significance in their own right. Driver's defence of ‘virtues of ignorance’ has force despite all the challenges to it that have been mounted over the years. But there are also examples diffe…

  • Morals from Motives

    Kieran Setiya, Michael SloteARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002

  • Morals from Motives

    Michael Slote, Michael A SloteBOOKMorals from motives2001

    Since the revival of virtue ethics, most work in virtue ethics has been Aristotelian in inspiration. This book draws, however, from the virtue‐ethical tradition of British moral sentimentalism a la Hume and Hutcheson, and is also influenced by the recently articulated ”ethics of caring”. It defends an agent‐based virtue ethics that treats the moral quality of motivation as the basis for all other ethical evaluations, and the emphasis is on caring…

  • Three Methods of Ethics

    Mark Van Roojen, Marcia Baron et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2001Cited by: 12