The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics

Daniel C. Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona, and Percy Seymour Reader in Ancient History and Philosophy at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (2005), Practical Intelligence and the Virtues (2009) and Happiness for Humans (2012).

• 1. The definition of virtue ethics Christine Swanton; 2. Ancient virtue ethics: an overview with an emphasis on practical wisdom Rachana Kamtekar; 3. Virtue ethics and the Chinese Confucian tradition Philip J. Ivanhoe; 4. Virtue ethics in the medieval period Jean Porter; 5. Hume's anatomy of virtue Paul Russell; 6. The historic decline of virtue ethics Dorothea Frede; 7. Virtue ethics in the twentieth century Timothy Chappell; 8. Virtue ethics and right action Liezl van Zyl; 9. Virtue ethics and bioethics Justin Oakley; 10. Environmental virtue ethics: what it is and what it needs to be Matt Zwolinski and David Schmidtz; 11. The virtue approach to business ethics Edwin Hartman; 12. Virtue and politics Mark LeBar; 13. Happiness and the virtues Daniel C. Russell; 14. The situationist critique of virtue ethics Gopal Sreenivasan.

'I would like to recommend this volume to students of philosophy and those philosophers looking for a general introduction into virtue thought. Especially, the historic part, I find well put together and helpful. This is indeed an important contribution to the growing and diversifying field of virtue ethics.' Ludwig Jaskolla, Metapsychology Online Reviews