The virtue ethics of Hume and Nietzsche /

• Main Author: Swanton, Christine, 1947-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
• Series: New directions in ethics ; 3.
• Subjects: Hume, David, > 1711-1776.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900.; Ethics.; Virtue.; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Electronic books.

Although contemporary development of virtue ethics has focused on Aristotle, other great thinkers in ethics - notably Hume and Nietzsche - also placed virtue at the center of their ethical theorizing. Moving away from ancient moral theorists, and subjectivist interpretations of Hume's and Nietz...