This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot's later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics. The chapters address questions about how Foot relates judgments of moral goodness to human nature, how Foot understands happiness, and addresses objections to her framework from the perspective of empirical biology. The volume will be of value to any student or scholar with an interest in virtue ethics and analytic moral philosophy.

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John Hacker-Wright is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Philippa Foot's Moral Thought (2013) and many papers on virtue ethics and neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism. He is editor of the Journal of Value Inquiry.

Inhalt

1

Introduction: From Natural Goodness to Morality

John Hacker-Wright

2

The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical Naturalism

Rosalind Hursthouse

3

How to be an Ethical Naturalist

Jennifer A. Frey

4

Practically Self-Conscious Life

Matthias Haase

5

Traditional Naturalism

Kristina Gehrman

6

Why Should I?: Can Foot Convince the Skeptic?

Anselm W. Müller

7

The Deep and the Shallow

Gavin Lawrence

8

Foot's Grammar of Goodness

Micah Lott

9

Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection:

Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science

Parisa Moosavi