Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hacker-Wright, John (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Philosophers in Depth
• Subjects: Ethics.; Modern philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.

This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot's later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics. The chapters address questions about how Foot relates judgments of moral goodness to human nature, how Foot underst...

Table of Contents:

• 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.