Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics

Drawing on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the work of Bernard Lonergan and Martha Nussbaum, Robert J. Fitterer tests the assumption that the inclusion of the emotions leads to bias in objective judgments or when determining moral truths.

Robert J. Fitterer is the senior pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Victoria, and teaches philosophy at the William Carey Institute.

‘Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics will be of interest not only to those engaged in the virtue ethics discussion, but also to those who study epistemology, cognitive psychology, and subjectivity.’

Elizabeth Agnes Cochran:

‘Building on Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum, [Fitterer] explores precisely how the experience of “being objective” can be understood from a moral subject’s point of view ... [His] discussion of the emotions’ moral value represents one of his most important contributions to contemporary conversation.’