Monkeying with Motives

Agent-Basing Virtue Ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID8082693
AuthorsJulia Driver (0000-0001-8173-2294, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume7
Issue2
Pages281-288
Publication date1995-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUtilitas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0953-8208 • E-ISSN: 1741-6183
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0953820800002090
OpenAlexW2110866216
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited1

Virtue ethics has generated a great deal of excitement among ethicists largely because it is seen as an alternative to the traditional theories – utilitarianism and Kantian ethics – which have come under considerable scrutiny and criticism in the past 30 years. Rather than give up the enterprise of doing moral theory altogether, as some have suggested, others have opted to develop an alternative that would hopefully avoid the shortcomings of both utilitarianism and Kantian ethics. Several writers, such as Jorge Garcia and Michael Slote, have tried to develop this alternative of virtue ethics, or at least sketch out ways such a theory could be developed

Criticism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Kantian ethics · Normative ethics · Political science · Scrutiny · Sketch · Sociology · Theology · Utilitarianism · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Ethics in medical practice · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Law · Philosophy

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