Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices

Comments:

... a lucid distillation of central themes in the recent literature on virtue ethics, with distinctive emphases on responsibility for character and on a naturalistic account of the virtuous person's flourishing. - Thomas Hurka, University of Calgary

McKinnon has managed to combine clarity and a keen awareness of contemporary theoretical issues with sensitivity to the enormous complexity of an ethics of character. This book advances the discussion of virtue ethics both in its theoretical form and in the details of character description. - Linda Zagzebski, Author of Virtues of the Mind (Cambridge University Press)

... a lucid distillation of central themes in the recent literature on virtue ethics, with distinctive emphases on responsibility for character and on a naturalistic account of the virtuous person's flourishing. - Thomas Hurka, University of Calgary

McKinnon has managed to combine clarity and a keen awareness of contemporary theoretical issues with sensitivity to the enormous complexity of an ethics of character. This book advances the discussion of virtue ethics both in its theoretical form and in the details of character description. - Linda Zagzebski, Author of Virtues of the Mind (Cambridge University Press)

... a lucid distillation of central themes in the recent literature on virtue ethics, with distinctive emphases on responsibility for character and on a naturalistic account of the virtuous person's flourishing. -- Thomas Hurka, University of Calgary

McKinnon has managed to combine clarity and a keen awareness of contemporary theoretical issues with sensitivity to the enormous complexity of an ethics of character. This book advances the discussion of virtue ethics both in its theoretical form and in the details of character description. -- Linda Zagzebski, Author of Virtues of the Mind (Cambridge University Press)

... a lucid distillation of central themes in the recent literature on virtue ethics, with distinctive emphases on responsibility for character and on a naturalistic account of the virtuous person's flourishing. -- Thomas Hurka, University of Calgary

McKinnon has managed to combine clarity and a keen awareness of contemporary theoretical issues with sensitivity to the enormous complexity of an ethics of character. This book advances the discussion of virtue ethics both in its theoretical form and in the details of character description. -- Linda Zagzebski, Author of Virtues of the Mind (Cambridge University Press)

Christine McKinnon teaches philosophy at Trent University.