Was Kant a virtue ethicist?

Kant's Ethics of Virtue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 61-75

  Johnson, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110209655     Document Type: Chapter

References (18)

1. John McDowell, 1997, "Virtue and Reason", Virtue Ethics, Roger Crisp/Michael Slote (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 141-162.
2. "Certainly it is characteristic of modern virtue ethics that it puts primary emphasis on aretaic or virtue-centered concepts rather than deontic or obligationcentered concepts."
3. Roger Crisp, Michael Slote, 1997, introduction to ibid., Crisp/Slote, 1997, p. 3., 1-25
4. Rosalind Hursthouse, Hereafter, I omit the spatiotemporal markers for clarity's sake. The formulation is roughly what one finds in, for instance
5. Rosalind Hursthouse, 1999, On Virtue Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 28
6. McDowell, 1997; and of course in Aristotle, 1993, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by T. R. Irwin, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1105b6.
7. [G 4: 427- 8].
8. "Weakness in the use of one's understanding coupled with strength of one's emotions is only a lack of virtue and, as it were, something childish and weak, which can indeed coexist with the best will." [MM 6: 408].
9. Robert Johnson, 2003, "Virtue and Right", I argue this more fully Ethics 113, 810-834.
10. [G 4: 403].
11. [G 4: 392].
12. [G 4: 428].
13. [CPrR 5: 58- 65].
14. [MM 6: 385].
15. Barbara Herman, 1993, "Leaving Deontology Behind", The Practice of Moral Judgment, Barbara Herman, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press p. 210., 208-240
16. John Broome, 2005, "Does rationality give us reasons?", Philosophical Issues, 15, 321-37.
17. R. Shafer-Landau, "Value and Autonomy in Kantian Ethics", Oxford Studies in Metaethics, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2 2007, 133- 148.
18. [G 4: 441- 445].