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  • From Morality to Virtue

    by Michael Slote ...
    In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Philosophical Essays East and West

    Agent-Based Virtue Ethics and other topics at the intersection of Chinese thought and Western analytic philosophy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book is a much-expanded version of the Kuang-Yi Liu Lectures in Chinese Philosophy the author delivered in Taiwan in December 2022. The book brings together essays on Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and the proposed interaction between them. The purpose is not mainly exegetical or descriptive; the book seeks to expand our philosophical understanding in various directions. Philosophical ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Moral Sentimentalism

    by Michael Slote ...
    There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Between Psychology and Philosophy

    East-West Themes and Beyond

    by Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a heart-mind is superior to the Western concept of mind, but then, more even-handedly, the relative strengths and weaknesses of Chinese ... Read more

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  • Moral Sentimentalism

    by Michael Slote ...
    There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the notion or ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Education and Human Values

    Reconciling Talent with an Ethics of Care

    by Michael Slote ...
    Two of our greatest educational theorists, John Dewey and Nel Noddings, have been reluctant to admit that some students are simply more talented than others. This was no doubt due to their feeling that such an admission was inconsistent with democratic concern for everyone. But there really is such a thing as superior talent; and the present book explains how that admission is compatible with our ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Essays on the History of Ethics

    by Michael Slote ...
    In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views. Arranged in chronological order of the philosopher under discussion, the relationship between ancient ethical theory and modern moral philosophy is a major theme of several ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Morals from Motives

    by Michael Slote ...
    Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Care Ethics and Beyond

    Moral, Epistemological, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Seisuke Hayakawa, Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume boldly expands intellectual horizons on care and the ethics of care. Centered on human emotionality and interdependence, the ethics of care was developed in the 1980s by feminists Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings.Bringing together important insights from different areas of philosophy, the contributors of this volume engage in two vibrant dialogues, offering a unique and timely ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Human Development and Human Life

    by Michael Slote ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like. While the first part looks at human development and change, the second part of the book explores what all human lives are like.Philosophical ideas and methods are central to this book, although it is difficult to subcategorize it into any ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Reason and Scepticism

    by Michael A Slote ...
    First published in 2002. The present work is chiefly concerned with the task of overcoming certain forms of scepticism that have plagued and perplexed philosophers throughout the ages. Slote overcomes some of the major traditional forms of epistemological scepticism by showing the reasonableness of belief in an external world. ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD