Varieties of Virtue Ethics

by David Carr (Editor), James Arthur (Editor), Kristján Kristjánsson (Editor)

Overview

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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137591777
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	565 KB

About the Author

James Arthur is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Staffing and Professor of Education and Civic Engagement at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. Among his many works on the education of character and virtue are The Communitarian Agenda in Education (2001) and Education with Character (2003).

David Carr is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and currently Professor of Ethics and Education in the University of Birmingham Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, UK.  He has written much on the significance of art and literature for educating moral character and recently edited a volume of essays entitled Perspectives on Gratitude: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2016).

Kristján Kristjánsson is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on issu

es at the intersection of moral philosophy, moral psychology and moral education. His latest book is Aristotelian Character Education (2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Philosophical Varieties of Virtue and Virtue Ethics

 

Chapter 1: The Varieties of Virtue Ethics

By Robert C. Roberts

 

Chapter 2: Which variety of virtue ethics?

By Julia Annas,

Chapter 3: Against idealization in virtue ethics

Howard Curzer

Chapter 4: Virtue ethics in the medieval period

By John Haldane

Chapter 5: Iris Murdoch and the varieties of virtue ethics, By Konrad Banicki

Chapter 6: Confucian and Daoist virtue ethics

By May Sim

 

Part 2: Virtue Ethics in the Wider Academic Context

Chapter 7: Aristotelian ethical virtue: naturalism without measure

By Jonathan Jacobs

Chapter 8: Categorising character: moving beyond the Aristotelian framework

By Christian Miller

Chapter 9: Human practices and God’s making-good in Aquinas’ virtue ethics

By Richard Conrad

Chapter 1

0: Recovered goods: Durheimian sociology as virtue ethics

By Philip Gorski

Chapter 11: The deep psychology of eudaimonia and virtue: belonging, loyalty and the anterior cingulate cortex

By Blaine Fowers

Chapter 12: Virtue, the common good and self-transcendence

By Candace Vogler

 

Part 3: Virtue Ethics and the Wider Professional and Educational Context

Chapter 13: Plato on the Necessity of Imitation and Habituation for the Cultivation of the Virtues

By Mark Jonas

Chapter 14: Maintaining primary professional virtues by protecting properly oriented relationships: medical practice as a case study

By Justin Oakley

Chapter 15: ‘Till we have faces’: second-person relatedness as the object, end and crucial circumstance of perfect or ‘infused’ virtues

By Andrew Pinsent

Chapter 16: The seduction of Kierkegaard’s aesthetic sphere

By Kevin Gary

Chapter 17: Distinguishing

Post-Traumatic Growth from Psychological Adjustment among Rwandan Genocide Survivors

By Laura E. R. Blackie, Eranda Jayawickreme, Nicki Hitchcott and Stephen Joseph

Chapter 18: Educating for the wisdom of virtue

By David Carr