Virtues and Their Vices
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198753667
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 235x158x28 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.
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Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular, historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or 'seven deadly sins') and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in a number of disciplines, ranging from theology and political theory to neurobiology and feminism. The treatment of the virtues in this present volume is sensitive to the historical heritage of the virtues, including their theological heritage, without paying undue attention to the historical and theological issues. Virtues and Their Vices engages contemporary philosophical scholarship as well as relevant scholarship from related disciplines throughout. It is a unique and compelling addition to the philosophical treatment of the virtues as well as their import in a wide spectrum of disciplines.
This is a very good book. As with any collected volume, some of the essays are stronger than others. But nearly every essay is wide-ranging, historically informed, well argued, lively, interesting, and potentially edifying. I highly recommend it, and hope to see more volumes like it.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I: The Cardinal Virtues
Prudence
The Virtues of Justice
Fortitude and the Conflict of Frameworks
Temperance
II: The Capital Vices and Corrective Virtues
Lust and Chastity
Gluttony and Abstinence
Avarice and Liberality
Sloth: Some Historical Reflections on Laziness, Effort, and Resistance to the Demands of Love
A Study in Virtuous and Vicious Anger
Envy and Its Discontents
Pride and Humility: Tempering the Desire for Excellence
III: Intellectual Virtues
Trust
Episteme: Knowledge and Understanding
Sophia: Theoretical Wisdom and Contemporary Epistemology,
IV: The Theological Virtues
Faith as Attitude, Trait, and Virtue
On Hope
Charity: How Friendship with God Unfolds in Love for Others
V: Virtue Across the Disciplines
Virtue in Theology
Virtue in Political Thought: On Civic Virtue and Political Liberalism
Virtue in Positive Psychology
Moral Psychology, Neuroscience, and Virtue: From Moral Judgment to Moral Character
Virtue and A Feminist Ethics of Care
