Virtues in action : new essays in applied virtue ethics / edited by Michael W. Austin, Eastern Kentucky University, USA.
In recent decades, many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of...
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I: PROFESSIONAL VIRTUE
- 1. Virtue-Centered Approaches to Education: Prospects and Pitfalls; Gregory Bassham
- 2. The Virtues of Honorable Business Executives; Dan Demetriou
- 3. Sport as a Moral Practice: An Aristotelian Approach; Michael W. Austin
- PART II: SOCIAL VIRTUE
- 4. Sex, Temperance, and Virtue; Stan van Hooft
- 5. Extend Your Benevolence: Kindness and Generosity in the Family and Beyond; Heidi Giebel
- 6. A Virtue Ethical Case for Pacifism; Franco V. Trivigno
- 7. Some Critical Reflections on Abortion and Virtue Theory; Matthew Flannagan
- PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE
- 8. Environmental Degradation, Environmental Justice, and the Compassionate Agent; Chris Frakes
- 9. Humility and Environmental Virtue Ethics; Matthew Pianalto
- PART IV: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE
- 10. Hope as an Intellectual Virtue; Nancy E. Snow
- 11. Virtue Ethics and Moral Failure: Lessons from Neuroscientific Moral Psychology; Lisa Tessman
- 12. Getting Our Minds Out of the Gutter: Fallacies that Foul Our Discourse (and Virtues that Clean it Up); Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King.