Beyond Virtue - by Hayden Ramsay (Hardcover)

About the Book

BEYOND VIRTUE explores the concept of integrity and its implications. Scholar Hayden Ramsay argues against the traditional account of the virtues as commitment to objective human goods and describes the natural law theory of virtue bringing its own rewards. Ramsay also applies the concept of integrity to analyze Aquinas's ethics, including the place of the emotions in morality.

Book Synopsis

Virtue ethics or natural law? Most contemporary accounts treat these as rival approaches. This book argues both are necessary since virtue is commitment to objective human goods. It also argues integrity is planning one's life by commitment to reasonableness, rejects traditional natural law and virtue ethics for more deontological accounts of the human good and virtue, and explains human personhood accordingly. Part 2 then analyzes Aquinas's accounts of emotion, the body and happiness in terms of integrity.