Goods and VirtuesOffers a critique of prevalent approaches to human good and virtue. Slote shows that typical philosophical accounts of the virtues and human goods oversimplify the subject and that a more exact approach is needed. |
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Act-Utilitarian actually addiction admirable immorality adulthood advantage anti-virtue argue Aristotle artistic assume assumption attitude believe Bernard Williams career Chapter Charles Fried childhood Churchill Churchill's circumstances claim conception consider count deny dependent virtue desire devotion discussion distinction earlier emotional equal ethical Eudaimonia example excellence existence fact faith feel Gauguin Gauguin's passion goals human humility idea ideal imagine important intrinsic involves irrational John McDowell John Rawls judgements justice Kant lack later lives McDowell moral justification Moral Luck moral requirements Nagel Nicomachean Ethics notion one's overall overridingness thesis particular perhaps period-relative periods Philippa Foot philosophers plausible pleasure political possible preference prudence Rawls reasons for action regard relative virtues remorse sadistic seems senescence sense shuffleboard simply single-mindedness slavery social virtue society someone sort speak status Stoicism Stoics tendency Theory of Justice things Thomas Nagel tion treat Utilitarian virtuous individual wealth Williams's world-relative wrong wrongdoing