Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue

Takes a unique approach: it is the first volume to focus on the moral philosophy of Philippa Foot

Provides high-quality analysis: features the work of an extremely prestigious collection of contributors

Conveys contemporary relevance: questions framed in the introduction about justice and how the human good can limit moral codes foreground the significance of Foot's thought for both modern theorists, and society more widely

Auteur

John Hacker-Wright is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Philippa Foot's Moral Thought (2013) and many papers on virtue ethics and neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism. He is editor of the Journal of Value Inquiry.

Contenu

1. Introduction; John Hacker-Wright.- 2. The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical Naturalism; Rosalind Hursthouse.- 3. How to be an Ethical Naturalist; Jennifer A. Frey.- 4. Practically Self-Conscious Life; Matthias Haase.- 5. Traditional Naturalism; Kristina Gehrman.- 6. Why Should I?; Anselm W. Müller.- 7. The Deep and the Shallow; Gavin Lawrence.- 8. Foot's Grammar of Goodness; Micah Lott.- 9. Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection; Parisa Moosavi.- Index. <p