Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. This tome will contribute not only to providing further clarity to the current horizons in virtue ethics, but also to the practical conclusion following from the study: to challenge the reader towarda greater pursuit of the virtuous life.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-05-09
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt547 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor207
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030158590

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Elisa GRIMI is Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy, the editor-in-chief of the international journal Philosophical News and Project Manager of philojotter.com. On 30th May, 2014, she received the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a work on ‘Politics and Network’. She has studied and worked at various universities throughout the world, in countries including Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, France and the United States. She is the author of numerous publications, including her first Italian monograph G.E.M. Anscombe: The Dragon Lady (2014) with direct testimonies, the collected volume Tradition as the Future of Innovation (Cantagalli 2015), co-author with Rémi Brague of Contro il cristianismo e l’umanismo. Il perdono dell’Occidente (Cantagalli 2016), editor of the collection Tradition as the Future for Innovation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and of the DossierLa philosophie de l’humilité (Recherches Philosophiques, ICT, 2017).

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Some Questions about Virtue;John Haldane.- Chapter 2. Virtue as the Order of Inner Life;Margarita Mauri Alvarez.- Chapter 3. Virtues. The Aristotelian-Thomistic Line of Thinking;Michael Wladika.- Chapter 4. The Soft Presence of Wittgenstein in Virtue Ethics and His Hard Significance for Its Future'Marco Damonte.- Chapter 5. The Humean Sentimentalist Learns from the Aristotelian Anscombe; Michael Slote.- Chapter 6. Wisdom and The Origins of Moral Knowledge; Randall Curren.- Chapter 7. Some Complexities of Categorizing Character Traits; Christian Miller.- Chapter 8. Does Virtue Ethics Allow Us to Make Better Judgments of the Actions of Others?;Liezl van Zyl.- Chapter 9. Virtue Ethics, Teleology, and Religion in the Aristotelian Tradition; Christopher D. Owens.- Chapter 10. Virtue Without Law? A Big Problem in Virtue Ethics; Scott J. Roniger.- Chapter 11. Liberal Perfectionism and the Virtues; Michele Mangini.- Chapter 12. The Big Risk behind the Explosion of Virtues; Elisa Grimi.- Chapter 13. Proliferating Virtues: A Clear and Present Danger?;Nancy Snow.- Chapter 14. Sacrifice in Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics; Christopher Toner.