Ethical Formation

by Sabina Lovibond and Professor Sabina Lovibond

Book Overview

Sabina Lovibond invites her readers to see how the "practical reason view of ethics" can survive challenges from within philosophy and from the antirationalist postmodern critique of reason.

She elaborates and defends a modern practical-reason view of ethics by focusing on virtue or ideal states of character that involve sensitivity to the objective reasons circumstances bring into play. At the heart of her argument is the Aristotelian idea...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013654
• ISBN13: 9780674013650
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"