Working Virtue Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems

Name: Working Virtue Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems
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ISBN: 9780199570867

ISBN-10: 0199570868

ISBN-13: 9780199570867

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rebecca L. Walker, Philip J. Ivanhoe

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Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness (heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These character traits must be looked to in any attempt to understand which particular actions are right or wrong and how we ought to live our lives. As a theoretical approach, virtue ethics has made an impressive comeback in relatively recent history, both…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 7/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction




Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching




Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics and the Retrieval of Professionalism




Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness




Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of Psychiatry




Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues




Environmental Virtue Ethics




The Good Life for Nonhuman Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans




Law, Morality, and Virtue




Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business Ethics




Racial Virtues




Virtue and a Warrior's Anger




Famine, Affluence and Virtue




Filial Piety as a Virtue