Rosalind Hursthouse is a moral philosopher noted for her work on virtue ethics. Hursthouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly, she has taught at the Open University in the United Kingdom, at the University of California at Los Angeles in the United States, and elsewhere. She received the M.A. degree from Auckland and she received the D. Phil. from Oxford University, having studied with Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot.

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  • Rosalind Hursthouse is a moral philosopher noted for her work on virtue ethics. Hursthouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly, she has taught at the Open University in the United Kingdom, at the University of California at Los Angeles in the United States, and elsewhere. She received the M.A. degree from Auckland and she received the D. Phil. from Oxford University, having studied with Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. She is a friend of Jeffrey Masson. Hursthouse's book, On Virtue Ethics develops a modern theory of virtue ethics. She has also contributed to the philosophical debate around the morality of abortion, in her book Beginning Lives and elsewhere. Hursthouse has also edited, and written commentary within, a volume of writings on the ethical treatment of animals in her book Ethics, Humans and Other Animals. Rosalind Hursthouse presents an Aristotelian framework for her Virtue ethics, although nevertheless departing from some of Aristotle's conclusions. Hursthouse defends a version of Virtue ethics which claims that virtues are virtues because they help a person achieve eudaimonia, and so living a virtuous life is a good thing for a human being. She sees the virtues as shaping the virtuous person's practical reasoning in characteristic ways, and not simply shaping that person's attitudes or actions. For Hursthouse being virtuous is the most reliable path to flourishing and she seems to think that no other path is as reliable. She also attempts to address the major criticism of Virtue ethics that it provides no guidance in moral dilemmas-not by telling us how a virtuous person would act, but by showing how a virtuous person would think about a moral dilemma.
  • Rosalind Hursthouse on moraalifilosofi, joka tunnetaan työstään uusaristoteelisen hyve-etiikan alalla. Hursthouse toimii Aucklandin yliopiston filosofian professorina. Aiemmin hän on opettanut Open Universityssä Isossa-Britanniassa sekä Kalifornian yliopistossa Los Angelesissa.
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  • Rosalind Hursthouse is a moral philosopher noted for her work on virtue ethics. Hursthouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly, she has taught at the Open University in the United Kingdom, at the University of California at Los Angeles in the United States, and elsewhere. She received the M.A. degree from Auckland and she received the D. Phil. from Oxford University, having studied with Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot.
  • Rosalind Hursthouse on moraalifilosofi, joka tunnetaan työstään uusaristoteelisen hyve-etiikan alalla. Hursthouse toimii Aucklandin yliopiston filosofian professorina. Aiemmin hän on opettanut Open Universityssä Isossa-Britanniassa sekä Kalifornian yliopistossa Los Angelesissa.
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