The supposed tension between 'strength' and 'gentleness' conceptions of the virtues

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 497-510

  Swanton, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 61149566928     PISSN: 00048402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048409712348071     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. 'Virtues and Vices' in Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978) pp. 1-18.
2. Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
3. Nel Noddings, 'Ethics from the Standpoint of Women' in Marilyn Pearsall (ed.), Women and alues Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy, (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1993) pp. 379-390.
4. Feminine and Feminist Ethics (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1993) p. 33.
5. 'Non Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach' in Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., Howard K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1988) pp. 32-53.
6. See further my 'Commentary on Michael Slote's "Virtue Ethics and Democratic Values'", Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (1993) pp. 38-49.
7. 'Some Concerns about Nel Noddings' Caring', Hypatia 5 (1990) pp. 108-113, esp. p. 111.
8. For a discussion of the latter three types of virtues of strength, see Michael Slote, 'Agent-Based Virtue Ethics' in Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., Howard K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy 20 (1995) pp. 83-101.
9. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1995) pp. 47-72.
10. The term is Philip Pettit's (see e.g. 'Consequentialism' in Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991) pp. 230-240).
11. Nicomachean Ethics, trans. J. A. K. Thomson (London: Penguin Books, 1976) 1171 a25-bl6
12. See Beyond Good and Evil, section 32.
13. Friedrich Nietzsche, 'Skirmishes of an Untimely Man' in Twilight of the Idols, trans. Walter Kaufmann in Kaufmann (ed.), The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), p. 536 (section 35).
14. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1966), p. 205 (section 260).
15. Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values: A Study in Strategies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
16. Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 16 (Book 1, section 18).
17. 'Nietzsche on Cruelty, Asceticism, and the Failure of Hedonism' in Richard Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) pp. 168-192.
18. Nicomachean Ethics 1113al2-34.
19. See, for example, Kant on the sorrowing philanthropist who acts out of duty (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (ed.) H. J. Paton (London: Hutchinson, 1961) ch. 1).
20. New Zealand Listener, September 2-8 (1995) p. 39.
21. I would like to thank Rosalind Hursthouse, Jerrold Levinson, Michael Slote and an anonymous referee for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy for helpful comments and criticisms.