Virtue and Vice
Virtue and Vice
Fred D. Miller, Jr, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Jeffrey Paul, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
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The essays in this volume discuss a range of questions relating to virtue ethics--a form of moral theory that has gained considerable attention in recent years. These questions include: What traits ought to be considered virtues? What is the proper place of virtue in a complete moral theory? Is it true, as the ancients thought, that there is a "unity of virtue," implying that to have virtue entails having all the others? What is the nature of vice or wickedness? Some of the essays in this volume explore the connection between virtue and flourishing or well-being, asking whether virtue is necessary or sufficient for leading a happy life. Some deal with specific virtues, such as pride or respect, or with the relationship between the virtues and emotions.
- Discussion of virtue and virtue ethics from a range of perspectives
- Very impressive line up of contributors
- Virtue ethics has received much attention recently
Reviews & endorsements
"...the essays contained in Virtue and Vice represent important new contributions to the field of virtue ethics. For that reason alone, this collection deserves careful study by philosophers (and advanced students philosophy) interested in exploring the merits of a moral philosophy grounded in the virtues." Teaching Philosophy
Product details
February 1998Paperback
9780521639910
344 pages
228 × 153 × 19 mm
0.47kg
Unavailable - out of print May 2011
Table of Contents
- 1. Ethics, character, and action
- 2. Is virtue its own reward?
- 3. Virtue and eudaimonism
- 4. Virtue, ethics and environs
- 5. The practice of pride
- 6. The virtues of a passionate life: erotic love and 'the will to power'
- 7. Concrete Kantian respect
- 8. A liberal theory of civic virtue
- 9. The justice of caring
- 10. Virtue, knowledge, and wickedness
- 11. The reflexivity of evil
- 12. The unity of virtue
- 13. Shaftesbury and the modern problem of virtue.
