Philippa Foot's Theory of Natural Goodness

• Authors: Sanford S. Levy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Philippa Foot's book, Natural Goodness, involves a large project including a theory of natural goodness, a theory of the virtues, and a theory of practical rationality. Natural goodness is the foundation for the rest and is used to support a more or less traditional list of the virtues and a theory of reasons for action. Though Foot's doctrine of natural goodness may provide an account of some sort of goodness, I argue that it is not adequate as a foundation for practical rationality or as a defense of more or less traditional virtues.

Keywords

EN

Kindness; Virtues; Practical Reason; Natural Goodness (Book)

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-15

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Sanford S. Levy

• Montana State University, Bozeman, United States

References

• Foot, Philippa. “Moral Argumentsi” In Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy, 96–109. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
• Foot, Philippa. Natural Goodness. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.
• Moore, G. E. Principia Ethica. London: Cambridge University Press, 1903.
• Scanlon, Thomas M. What We Owe To Each Other. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

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DOI

10.5840/forphil200914117

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