Virtue ethics or natural law? Most contemporary accounts treat these as rival approaches. This book argues both are necessary since virtue is commitment to objective human goods. It also argues integrity is planning one's life by commitment to reasonableness, rejects traditional natural law and virtue ethics for more deontological accounts of the human good and virtue, and explains human personhood accordingly. Part 2 then analyzes Aquinas's accounts of emotion, the body and happiness in terms of integrity.
Preface - PART 1: THE CONCEPT OF INTEGRITY - Introduction: Integrity -The Dispositional Account of Virtue - The Kantian Account of Virtue - Natural Law - Personhood, Autonomy and Flexibility - PART 2: ST THOMAS AQUINAS - Morality and Emotional Integrity - Beauty and Physical Integrity - Integrity and Happiness - Appendix: The Integrity of Virtue - Index
Virtue ethics or natural law? It also argues integrity is planning one's life by commitment to reasonableness, rejects traditional natural law and virtue ethics for more deontological accounts of the human good and virtue, and explains human personhood accordingly.
Virtue ethics or natural law? Most contemporary accounts treat these as rival approaches. This book argues both are necessary since virtue is commitment to objective human goods. It also argues integrity is planning one's life by commitment to reasonableness, rejects traditional natural law and virtue ethics for more deontological accounts of the human good and virtue, and explains human personhood accordingly. Part 2 then analyzes Aquinas's accounts of emotion, the body and happiness in terms of integrity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface - PART 1: THE CONCEPT OF INTEGRITY - Introduction: Integrity -The Dispositional Account of Virtue - The Kantian Account of Virtue - Natural Law - Personhood, Autonomy and Flexibility - PART 2: ST THOMAS AQUINAS - Morality and Emotional Integrity - Beauty and Physical Integrity - Integrity and Happiness - Appendix: The Integrity of Virtue - Index
Klappentext
Virtue ethics or natural law? Most contemporary accounts treat these as rival approaches. This book argues both are necessary since virtue is commitment to objective human goods. It also argues integrity is planning one's life by commitment to reasonableness, rejects traditional natural law and virtue ethics for more deontological accounts of the human good and virtue, and explains human personhood accordingly. Part 2 then analyzes Aquinas's accounts of emotion, the body and happiness in terms of integrity.
