Kinds of virtue theorist

a response to Christine Swanton

Annette C. Baier

pp. 249-258

in: Charles R. Pigden (ed), Hume on motivation and virtue, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Abstract

Swanton refers to Hume as "a normative ethical theorist of virtue". What breed of theorising beast is that,¹ and is Hume, who is certainly some sort of theorist of virtue, a "normative ethical" one? What other species of virtue theorist are there?

Cited authors

Hume David

Swanton Christine