Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato’s MenoOxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0195140761 | 2001-05-01 | DOC | 240 pages | 316 kbIn this radical new interpretation of Plato’s Meno, Roslyn Weiss exposes the farcical nature of the slave-boy-demonstration and challenges the widely held assumption that the Meno introduces […]

Erik J. Wielenberg, Value and Virtue in a Godless UniverseCambridge University Press | ISBN:0521607841 | 2005 | PDF | 0.8 MB | 200 pagesSuppose there is no God. This supposition implies that human life is meaningless, that there are no moral obligations and hence people can do whatever […]

Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and ResponsibilityOxford University Press, USA | ISBN 019514077X | 2001 edition | PDF | 257 pages | 800 KBVirtue epistemology is an exciting, new movement receiving an enormous amount of attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this pioneering volume reflects the best work in that […]

Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral AgencyOxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0195152042 | 2003 | PDF | 207 p. | 7.1 MB

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Nomy Arpaly rejects the model of rationality used by most ethicists and action theorists. Both observation and psychology indicate that people act rationally without deliberation, and act irrationally with […]

Uneasy VirtueCambridge University Press | ISBN: 052103406X | 2005 | PDF | 155 p. | 550 KBDriver challenges Aristotle’s classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues that do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Modesty, for example, is generally considered to be a virtue […]