Morals From Motives

Features of Morals from Motives

Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutchesons moral sentimentalism than by recentlyinfluential Aristotelianism It argues that a reconfigured and expanded morality of caring can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice Expanding the frontiers of ethics it goes on to show how a motivebased pure virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human wellbeing and practical reason