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Response to my Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

JULIA DRIVER
JULIA DRIVER
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College
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Abstract

This essay is a rejoinder to comments on Uneasy Virtue made by Onora O'Neill, John Skorupski, and Michael Slote in this issue. In Uneasy Virtue I presented criticisms of traditional virtue theory. I also presented an alternative – a consequentialist account of virtue, one which is a form of ‘pure evaluational externalism’. This type of theory holds that the moral quality of character traits is determined by factors external to agency (e.g. consequences). All three commentators took exception to this account. Therefore, the bulk of my response focuses on defending the externalist account of virtue presented in the final chapters of Uneasy Virtue.

Type
Research Article
Information
Utilitas , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 33 - 41
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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