Inner Virtue
Inner Virtue

Author: NicolasBersoff Fellow, Philosophy Department Bommarito

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0190673400

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What does it mean to be a morally good person? It can be tempting to think that it is simply a matter of performing certain actions and avoiding others. And yet, there is much more to moral character than our outward actions. We expect a good person to not only behave in certain ways, but also to experience the world in certain ways within. Pleasure, emotion, and attention are important parts of our moral character despite being involuntary inner states. Inner Virtue defends a theory of why and how such states are relevant to moral character: These states say something about what kind of person one is by manifesting our deepest cares and concerns.

Inner Virtue
Inner Virtue

Author: Nicolas Bommarito

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0190673389

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Inner virtue and vice -- Pleasure -- Emotion -- Attention -- The relevance of inner virtue

Reclaiming Virtue
Reclaiming Virtue

Author: John Bradshaw

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0553095927

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The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.

After Virtue
After Virtue

Author: Alasdair MacIntyre

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1623569818

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Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics
The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

Author: Lorraine Besser-Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 1135096694

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Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Just as significantly, several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways of approaching ethics or political philosophy or show how virtue ethics can be applied to "real world" problems.

Inner Virtue, Outer Expression
Inner Virtue, Outer Expression

Author: Barbara Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2004-11-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781414102863

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We usually recognize virtue when we see it, but few of us can describe how it is developed. This book shows how the Bible's blueprint can be translated into godly character, starting with these twelve qualities: Integrity, Humility, Cooperativeness, Unselfishness, Courage, Purity, Discretion, Self Control, Reliability, Compassion, Mercy, and Discernment. The interactive format lends itself to either personal or group study.

The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good
The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good

Author: Kleio Akrivou

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1784717916

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The evolution of modern capitalist society is increasingly being marked by an undeniable and consistent tension between pure economic and ethical ways of valuing and acting. This book is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary contribution that challenges the assumptions of capitalist business and society. It ultimately reflects on how to restore benevolence, collaboration, wisdom and various forms of virtuous deliberation amongst all those who take part in the common good, drawing inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue.

The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics
The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics

Author: Joseph J. Kotva Jr.

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1996-09-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781589014282

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Despite the growing interest among philosophers and theologians in virtue ethics, its proponents have done little to suggest why Christians in particular find virtue ethics attractive. Joseph J. Kotva, Jr., addresses this question in The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics, showing that virtue theory offers an ethical framework that is highly compatible with Christian morality. Kotva defines virtue ethics and demonstrates its ability to voice Christian convictions about how to live the moral life. He evaluates virtue theory in light of systematic theology and Scripture, arguing that Christian ethics could be profitably linked with neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. Ecumenical in tone, this book provides a thorough but accessible introduction to recent philosophical accounts of virtue and offers an original, explicitly Christian adaptation of these ideas. It will be of value to students and scholars of philosophy, theology, and religion, as well as to those interested in the debates surrounding virtue ethics.

Mencian Hermeneutics
Mencian Hermeneutics

Author: Chun-chieh Huang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1351324993

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Considered second only to Confucius in the history of Chinese thought, Mencius (371?-289 b.c.), was a moral philosopher whose arguments, while pragmatically rooted in the political and social conditions of his time, go beyond particular situations to probe their origins and speculate on their larger implications. His writings constitute a living tradition in China and the world at large. Sinological studies of Mencius have long emphasized philological and archaeological research, situating the texts mainly in Chinese history. Critical appraisal of the texts lends itself to Western traditions of interpretation.