Developing the Virtues

Julia Annas is Regents Professor in Philosophy at the University of Arizona, having also taught at Oxford. She was the founding editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She brings evolutionary theory, neurobiology and positive psychology to considerations of wellbeing, morality and wisdom across the lifespan, including early life, childhood and adulthood and in multiple contexts (parenting, schooling).Nancy E. Snow is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. With Darcia Narvaez, she is the co-director of the three-year project, "The Self, Motivation, and Virtue, " funded by $2.6 million from the Templeton Religion Trust. She is the author of over thirty papers and one monograph, and has edited or co-edited five volumes.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Baselines for Virtue Darcia NarvaezChapter 2: Moral Self-Identity and the Social-Cognitive Theory of Virtue Daniel LapsleyChapter 3: From a Baby Smiling: Reflections on Virtues in Development Robert N. EmdeChapter 4: The Development of Virtuous Character: Automatic and Reflective Dispositions Ross A. Thompson and Abby S. LavineChapter 5: Developmental Virtue Ethics Christine SwantonChapter 6: How Habits Make Us Virtuous Nancy E. SnowChapter 7: Virtue Cultivation in Light of Situationism Christian MillerChapter 8: Becoming Good: Narrow Dispositions and the Stability of Virtue Rachana KamtekarChapter 9: The Role of Motivation and Wisdom in Virtue as Skill Matt StichterChapter 10: Learning Virtue Rules: The Issue of Thick Concepts Julia AnnasChapter 11: Guilt and Shame in the Development of Virtue Jennifer A. HerdtChapter 12: Benevolence in a Justice-Based World: The Power of Sentiments (and Reasoning) in Predicting Prosocial Behaviors Gustavo CarloChapter 13: Norms of Justice in Development Mark LeBar

Sixty years ago, Elizabeth Anscombe called for a more advanced moral psychology to support virtue ethics. Developing the Virtues answers that call with a thoughtful, engaging collection of essays, representing different perspectives on developing virtue, with high integrity to the disciplines they represent. I recommend this book to anyone working in the field of virtue ethics, and to anyone interested in virtue for its own sake.