Virtuous Liaisons: Care, Love, Sex, and Virtue Ethics

By Raja Halwani

Author Raja Halwani discusses how virtue ethics sheds light on three crucial areas of our lives: care, love, and sex. He has three groundbreaking theses: first, care should be construed as a virtue,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812695437
• ISBN13: 9780812695434
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A modern ethicist who deserves much attention

I've had the pleasure of meeting Raja. He's a professor of philosophy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I sat in on one of his group discussions about the moral permissability and moral value of prostitution. This topic was chosen partly because it is a topic covered in his book. Halwani is a great thinker who writes with confidence, clarity, and a pure understanding of the concrete laws of logic and argumentation. Care ethics is a largely overlooked segment of ethical study, and we should be grateful that so talented a man has contributed to a very finite library or books on the subject. A reader with an interest in ethics (specifically about arguing for such controversial elements of care/virtue ethics as promiscuous sex, open relationships and sex work) should enjoy this publication. It's thorough and requires much reflection, but it is not meant to be quickly read like a novel.