The Pitfalls of Virtue Ethics
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
876514446Y
ISBN-13
9798765144466
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 27th, 2025
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
650 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.20 x 2.60 cms
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This book offers a unique look into virtue ethics, exploring why this tradition is in need of repair, renewal, and reformation.
In this book, Husain Sarkar offers a remarkable look into the groundwork of virtue ethics.
Especially focusing on theories proposed by Julia Annas and Rosalind Hursthouse, he examines a multiplicity of cardinal tenets of virtue ethics by bringing five cardinal objections - namely, the self-defeating objection, the circularity objection, the moral relativism objection, the explanatory poverty objection, and the inconsistent advice objection - to bear upon them. These objections define the shape, scope, and substance of the book. Collectively, they unveil several fault lines, a few hitherto unsuspected. Sarkar argues that notwithstanding the novel, intriguing answers to old, familiar ethical questions, the answers are so fraught with difficulties, that virtue ethics - as a philosophical moral tradition - is best seen as badly in need of repair and reformation. Perhaps, this book may provoke a Renaissance in the field of virtue ethics.
Especially focusing on theories proposed by Julia Annas and Rosalind Hursthouse, he examines a multiplicity of cardinal tenets of virtue ethics by bringing five cardinal objections - namely, the self-defeating objection, the circularity objection, the moral relativism objection, the explanatory poverty objection, and the inconsistent advice objection - to bear upon them. These objections define the shape, scope, and substance of the book. Collectively, they unveil several fault lines, a few hitherto unsuspected. Sarkar argues that notwithstanding the novel, intriguing answers to old, familiar ethical questions, the answers are so fraught with difficulties, that virtue ethics - as a philosophical moral tradition - is best seen as badly in need of repair and reformation. Perhaps, this book may provoke a Renaissance in the field of virtue ethics.
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