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Uneasy virtue /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Uneasy virtue // Julia Driver.
Author:	Driver, Julia,
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 134 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Virtue. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498770
ISBN:	9780511498770 (ebook)

Uneasy virtue /
Driver, Julia,1961-

Uneasy virtue /Julia Driver. - 1 online resource (xxi, 134 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in philosophy. - Cambridge studies in philosophy..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The Aristotelian conception of virtue -- The virtues of ignorance -- Dubious virtue psychology -- A consequentialist theory of virtue -- Virtue and the will.

The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver challenges this classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues which do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Some 'virtues of ignorance' are counterexamples to accounts of virtue which hold that moral virtue must involve practical wisdom. Modesty, for example, is generally considered to be a virtue even though the modest person may be making an inaccurate assessment of his or her accomplishments. Driver argues that we should abandon the highly intellectualist view of virtue and instead adopt a consequentialist perspective which holds that virtue is simply a character trait which systematically produces good consequences.

ISBN: 9780511498770 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

565801
Virtue.

LC Class. No.: BJ1521 / .D75 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 170

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