The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

This ground-breaking and lucid contribution to the vibrant field of virtue ethics focuses on the influential work of Hume and Nietzsche, providing fresh perspectives on their philosophies and a compelling account of their impact on the development of virtue ethics.

• A ground-breaking text that moves the field of virtue ethics beyond ancient moral theorists and examines the highly influential ethical work of Hume and Nietzsche from a virtue ethics perspective
• Contributes both to virtue ethics and a refreshed understanding of Hume’s and Nietzsche’s ethics
• Skilfully bridges the gap between continental and analytical philosophy
• Lucidly written and clearly organized, allowing students to focus on either Hume or Nietzsche
• Written by one of the most important figures contributing to virtue ethics today

Keywords: Hume, Nietzsche, virtue ethics, virtue ethicist, response dependence, sentimentalist, justice as virtue, Egoism, egoist, existentialism, existentialist, virtue ethics of love, virtue ethics of becoming, Greek moral theorists, eudaimonist tradition, Aristotle, neo-Aristotolean virtue ethics, moral philosophy, immoralists, relativists, subjectivists, deontological virtue, Moral Theology / Christian Ethics, Moral Theology / Christian Ethics