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Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

Silverman, Eric J.

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PhilosophyReligion General General Psychology

ISBN10: 1793608830
ISBN13: 9781793608833
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 27 2019
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirty-five years ago Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue established virtue ethics as a major challenger to competing visions of morality, but there is still considerable disagreement concerning which version of virtue ethics provides the best approach. The Supremacy of Love describes and advocates an agape-centered vision of Aristotelian virtue ethics that portrays love as the most important moral virtue, and the goals of love as a partial constituent of every genuine virtue. This structural improvement to Aristotelian virtue ethics--found originally in the ethics of Thomas Aquinas--enables this account to address several controversial topics in contemporary virtue ethics, including why the virtues cannot be used badly, in what sense is there a unity between the virtues, how the virtues benefit the virtuous person, and how virtues provide action guidance. Eric J. Silverman demonstrates how and why a distinctly love-centered approach to virtue ethics should make the view widely attractive in comparison to alternative accounts of virtue ethics, duty based deontological theories, as well as results-based consequentialist views.

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