The Pitfalls of Virtue Ethics
Author: Sarkar, Husain
ISBN: 9798765144466
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 18 Sep 2025
Pages: 352 Format: Hardback
This book offers a unique look into virtue ethics, exploring why this tradition is in need of repair, renewal, and reformation.
Husain Sarkar examines which tenets of virtue ethics are indispensable and which ones are simply indefensible through uniquely different perspectives by bringing five cardinal objections namely, the self-defeating objection, the circularity objection, the moral relativism objection, the explanatory poverty objection, and the inconsistent advice objection to bear on a multiplicity of central tenets of virtue ethics. Sarkar discusses theories of virtue ethics proposed by G.E.M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Julia Annas, and Rosalind Hursthouse, and their novel, intriguing answers to old, familiar questions, such as- What is a virtuous action? Are there virtue rules? What is the best explanation of a morally right action? And what, if anything, is the meaning of life? The central task of this book is to examine the vision and tradition that their works collectively create, while also unraveling why this tradition is in need of repair, renewal, and reformation.
ISBN: 9798765144466
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 18 Sep 2025
Pages: 352 Format: Hardback
This book offers a unique look into virtue ethics, exploring why this tradition is in need of repair, renewal, and reformation.
Husain Sarkar examines which tenets of virtue ethics are indispensable and which ones are simply indefensible through uniquely different perspectives by bringing five cardinal objections namely, the self-defeating objection, the circularity objection, the moral relativism objection, the explanatory poverty objection, and the inconsistent advice objection to bear on a multiplicity of central tenets of virtue ethics. Sarkar discusses theories of virtue ethics proposed by G.E.M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Julia Annas, and Rosalind Hursthouse, and their novel, intriguing answers to old, familiar questions, such as- What is a virtuous action? Are there virtue rules? What is the best explanation of a morally right action? And what, if anything, is the meaning of life? The central task of this book is to examine the vision and tradition that their works collectively create, while also unraveling why this tradition is in need of repair, renewal, and reformation.
