Patterns of Moral Complexity

by Charles Larmore

Book Overview

Larmore aims to recover three forms of moral complexity that have often been neglected by moral and political philosophers. First, he argues that virtue is not simply the conscientious adherence to principle. Rather, the exercise of virtue apply. He argues - and this is the second pattern of complexity - that recognizing the value of constitutive ties with shared forms of life does not undermine the liberal ideal of political neutrality toward differing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521338913
• ISBN13: 9780521338912
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"