This ground-breaking and lucid contribution to the vibrant field of virtue ethics focuses on the
influential work of Hume and Nietzsche, providing fresh perspectives on their philosophies …

Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the
major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. The book …

Almost everyone in philosophy knows that virtue ethics dominated ethics during the period
of classical antiquity (in the West); and everyone also knows that it started reviving ever …

More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge
moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or …

In this article, I propose to reconstruct Friedrich Nietzsche's ethical teachings and read them
as a form of virtue ethics. 1 This reading is partly inspired by Kaufmann's generous …

" There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its
theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle …

Hume and Nietzsche have a remarkable number of things in common. Most notably, both
can be characterized as philosophers of human nature. They share a turn of mind that is …

Eudaimonia and virtue ethics1 are interwoven, many extant virtue-ethical theories being
eudaimonist, and many (perhaps most) extant eudaimonist theories being virtue-ethical. The …

This volume provides a clear and accessible overview of central concepts, positions, and
arguments in virtue ethics today. While it focuses primarily on Aristotelian virtue ethics, it also …

Hume's moral philosophy may plausibly be construed as a version of virtue ethics. Among
the central moral concepts of his theory are character, virtue, and vice, rather than rules …