Kristján Kristjánsson, Professor of Virtue Ethics and Character Education, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents1 Introducing and conceptualising the ‘kindly virtues’ 2 Kindness as a motivational attitude 3 Considerateness 4 Intellectual humility 5 Modesty 6 When is it overall virtuous to be unkindly? 7 Some complementary reflections on the kindly virtues 8 Conclusion References

‘Kristján Kristjánsson has done it again. Perhaps today's leading writer on virtue, he has written a ground-breaking study of polite civility understood in terms of the kindly virtues. In addition to considerateness, intellectual humility, and modesty, the book also discusses important questions surrounding kindness, practical wisdom, and relativism. Highly recommended!’

Kristján Kristjánsson, Professor of Virtue Ethics and Character Education, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents1 Introducing and conceptualising the ‘kindly virtues’ 2 Kindness as a motivational attitude 3 Considerateness 4 Intellectual humility 5 Modesty 6 When is it overall virtuous to be unkindly? 7 Some complementary reflections on the kindly virtues 8 Conclusion References

‘Kristján Kristjánsson has done it again. Perhaps today's leading writer on virtue, he has written a ground-breaking study of polite civility understood in terms of the kindly virtues. In addition to considerateness, intellectual humility, and modesty, the book also discusses important questions surrounding kindness, practical wisdom, and relativism. Highly recommended!’

Kristján Kristjánsson, Professor of Virtue Ethics and Character Education, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents1 Introducing and conceptualising the ‘kindly virtues’ 2 Kindness as a motivational attitude 3 Considerateness 4 Intellectual humility 5 Modesty 6 When is it overall virtuous to be unkindly? 7 Some complementary reflections on the kindly virtues 8 Conclusion References

‘Kristján Kristjánsson has done it again. Perhaps today's leading writer on virtue, he has written a ground-breaking study of polite civility understood in terms of the kindly virtues. In addition to considerateness, intellectual humility, and modesty, the book also discusses important questions surrounding kindness, practical wisdom, and relativism. Highly recommended!’