Theological Studies, December 1st, 2005
DIVINE MOTIVATION THEORY. By Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. New York: Cambridge University, 2004. Pp. xvii + 410. $70; $28.99.
Zagzebski addresses two distinct tasks: exposition and defense of a non-teleological virtue ethics (part 1) and its grounding in an explicitly Christian theistic metaphysics (part 2). There are three components to the first task: (1) Z. argues that the value of the basic concepts of ethical theory--e.g., good outcome, good disposition, right act, virtue, virtuous act, obligation, eudaimonia--derives from the concept of a good motive. (2) Motive is defined as an emotion t...
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