Varieties of Virtue Ethics

David Carr, James Arthur, Kristján Kristjánsson, David Carr, James Arthur, Kristján Kristjánsson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781137591760
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137591777
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Eastern Philosophy

This book explores recent developments in ethics of virtue. While acknowledging the Aristotelian roots of modern virtue ethics – with its emphasis on the moral importance of character – this collection recognizes that more recent accounts of virtue have been shaped by many other influences, such as Aquinas, Hume, Nietzsche, Hegel and Marx, Confucius and Lao-tzu. The authors also examine the bearing of virtue ethics on other disciplines such as psychology, sociology and theology, as well as attending to some wider public, professional and educational implications of the ethics of virtue. This pioneering book will be invaluable to researchers and students concerned with the many contemporary varieties and applications of virtue ethics. 

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributor Contact Information
• List of Figures
• 1: Varieties of Virtue Ethics: Introduction
• Part I: Philosophical Varieties of Virtue and Virtue Ethics
• 2: Varieties of Virtue Ethics
• 3: Which Variety of Virtue Ethics?
• 4: Against Idealization in Virtue Ethics
• 5: Virtue Ethics in the Medieval Period
• 6: Iris Murdoch and the Varieties of Virtue Ethics
• 7: Confucian and Daoist Virtue Ethics
• Part II: Virtue Ethics in the Wider Academic Context
• 8: Aristotelian Ethical Virtue: Naturalism Without Measure
• 9: Categorizing Character: Moving Beyond the Aristotelian Framewor
• 10: Human Practice and God’s Making-Good in Aquinas’ Virtue Ethics
• 11: Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology as Virtue Ethics
• 12: The Deep Psychology of Eudaimonia and Virtue: Belonging, Loyalty and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex
• 13: Virtue, the Common Good and Self-Transcendence
• Part III: Virtue Ethics and the Wider Professional and Educational Context
• 14: Plato on the Necessity of Imitation and Habituation for the Cultivation of the Virtues
• 15: Maintaining Primary Professional Virtues by Protecting Properly Oriented Relationships: Medical Practice as a Case Study
• 16: “Till We Have Faces”: Second-Person Relatedness as the Object, End and Crucial Circumstance of Perfect or “Infused” Virtues
• 17: The Seduction of Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Sphere
• 18: Distinguishing Post-traumatic Growth from Psychological Adjustment Among Rwandan Genocide Survivors
• 19: Educating for the Wisdom of Virtue
• Index