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Christine Swanton's careful reading of Hume and Nietzsche as virtue ethicists is both original and compelling. This foundational work significantly advances scholarship in virtue ethics, paving the way for a viable alternative to Aristotelianism. Liezl van Zyl, University of Waikato In this book, Christine Swanton continues to expand our conception of virtue ethics. She combines her characteristic precision with textual attentiveness to interpret both Hume and Nietzsche as response dependence theorists. The result is bold and refreshing as she showcases the enduring legacies of both philosophers and their relevance for recent developments in philosophical ethics. Readers will find particularly exciting her reconstruction of Hume as centrally concerned with our capacities for empathy, love and compassion to sustain and strengthen our bonds with one another. Jacqueline Taylor, University of San Francisco

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Christine Swanton is a philosopher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. She is the author of Virtue Ethics: A Pluralist View (2005), Freedom: A Coherence Theory (1992), and has contributed numerous articles to journals and reference works. She is regarded as one of the leading academic figures currently working within the field of virtue ethics.

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