An edition of Choosing Character (2001)

Choosing Character

Responsibility for Virtue & Vice

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An edition of Choosing Character (2001)

Choosing Character

Responsibility for Virtue & Vice

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"Are there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with serious vices be rational agents? Jonathan Jacobs answers in the affirmative. Moral character is shaped through voluntary habits, Jacobs believes. Just as individuals can voluntarily lead unhappy lives without making unhappiness an end, so can they degrade their ethical characters through voluntary action that does not have establishment of vice as its end.

Choosing Character presents an account of ethical disability, expanding the domain of responsibility and explicating the role of character in ethical cognition.".

"Jacobs contends that agents become ethically disabled voluntarily when their habits impair their ability to properly appreciate ethical considerations. Such agents are rational, responsible individuals who are yet incapable of virtuous action. The view develops and modifies Aristotelian claims concerning the fixity of character. Jacobs's interpretation is developed in contrast to the overlooked work of Maimonides, who also used Aristotelian resources but argued for the possibility of character change.

The notion of ethical disability has profound ramifications for ethics and for current debates about blame and punishment."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
176

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Cover of: Choosing Character
Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice
2018, Cornell University Press
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Cover of: Choosing Character
Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue & Vice
July 2001, Cornell University Press
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Library of Congress
BJ1451 .J33 2001, BJ1451.J33 2001

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
176
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Weight
1 pounds

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Open Library
OL7848394M
Internet Archive
choosingcharacte00jaco
ISBN 10
0801438594
ISBN 13
9780801438592
LCCN
00012990
OCLC/WorldCat
45655064
Goodreads
1145556

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