Preface; Acknowledgements; Plan of the Book; 1. Virtue Ethics 2. Virtue 3. Virtue and Happiness 4. Virtuous Motives 5. Practical Wisdom 6. Virtue and Right Action 7. Applying Virtue Ethics 8. Virtue-ethical Particularism 9. The Situationist Critique 10. Virtue and Environmental Ethics; Bibliography; Index
Liezl van Zyl is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She works primarily in ethics, in particular virtue ethics and applied ethics.
"Highly recommended as both a textbook and a research monograph,
Van Zyl's Virtue Ethics is at once a thorough, up-to-date, and
even-handed survey of the current state of the art and an
argumentative contribution to the field. Her book shows not just
what virtue ethics as a broad normative theory is, but also what it
could become via application to various thorny questions and
contexts. Enlightening and edifying: I can't think of a better
introduction!"
Mark Alfano, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology
and Professor at Australian Catholic University "In this admirably
clear and comprehensive introduction, Van Zyl masterfully
articulates and evaluates the rationales underlying the most
prominent forms of contemporary virtue ethics. While fully
accessible to beginners, this book will also be appreciated by
those who have long been engaged in ethical theory."
Nicholas Ryan Smith, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City
University of New York, USA
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