Slote here offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue.[...]

There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michae[...]