Uneasy Virtue (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521034067)

Driver 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 even though the modest person may be making an inaccurate assessment of his or her accomplishments. She argues that we should abandon the highly intellectualist view of virtue and instead adopt a consequentialist perspective that holds that virtue is simply a character trait that systematically produces good consequences.

Author: Julia Driver
ISBN-10: 052103406X
ISBN-13: 9780521034067
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2007
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d