Virtue and the Moral Life

Theological and Philosophical Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av William Werpehowski, Kathryn Getek Soltis, Villanova University Soltis, Kathryn Getek

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The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society’s common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers’ sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-04-15
Mått154 x 224 x 17 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739194522

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William Werpehowski holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Karl Barth and Christian Ethics: Living in Truth (2014) and American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (2002).Kathryn Getek Soltis is assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University.

PrefacePart I: Why Virtue?Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics TodayJames F. Keenan, S.J.Chapter Two: Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of VirtueJennifer A. HerdtPart II: Virtue, Conscience, and Public LifeChapter Three: Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic IntegrityMargaret Urban WalkerChapter Four: Moral Grief and Reflective VirtueMark A. WilsonPart III: Virtue, Children, and the FamilyChapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer CultureMary M. Doyle RocheChapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising ‘Nones’: Practicing Courage and HumilityJulie Hanlon RubioPart IV: Virtue and Moral FailureChapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance TodayJean PorterChapter Eight: Making More Space for Moral FailureLisa TessmanPart V: Virtue and the Challenge of OthernessChapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie SchillingerChapter Ten: Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri

Featuring some of the most interesting and senior scholars working on the virtues today, the volume makes a fine contribution to the literature.... [M]ost entries...significantly advance research into their chosen topics.... The volume will be useful to more advanced students who want to see issues of public and family life run through a virtue ethics filter, and it will be studied closely by specialists who look to figures such as Porter and Herdt for pioneering developments in the field.