Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grimi, Elisa (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.

The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the current conversation about virtue. Among many...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Some Questions about Virtue;John Haldane
• Chapter 2. Virtue as the Order of Inner Life;Margarita Mauri Alvarez
• Chapter 3. Virtues. The Aristotelian-Thomistic Line of Thinking;Michael Wladika
• Chapter 4. The Soft Presence of Wittgenstein in Virtue Ethics and His Hard Significance for Its Future'Marco Damonte
• Chapter 5. The Humean Sentimentalist Learns from the Aristotelian Anscombe; Michael Slote
• Chapter 6. Wisdom and The Origins of Moral Knowledge; Randall Curren
• Chapter 7. Some Complexities of Categorizing Character Traits; Christian Miller
• Chapter 8. Does Virtue Ethics Allow Us to Make Better Judgments of the Actions of Others?;Liezl van Zyl
• Chapter 9. Virtue Ethics, Teleology, and Religion in the Aristotelian Tradition; Christopher D. Owens
• Chapter 10. Virtue Without Law? A Big Problem in Virtue Ethics; Scott J. Roniger
• Chapter 11. Liberal Perfectionism and the Virtues; Michele Mangini
• Chapter 12. The Big Risk behind the Explosion of Virtues; Elisa Grimi
• Chapter 13. Proliferating Virtues: A Clear and Present Danger?;Nancy Snow
• Chapter 14. Sacrifice in Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics; Christopher Toner.