Practice of Virtue Classic and Contemporary Readings in Virtue Ethics

Name: Practice of Virtue Classic and Contemporary Readings in Virtue Ethics
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ISBN: 9780872208094

ISBN-10: 0872208095

ISBN-13: 9780872208094

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jennifer Welchman

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This anthology can be used to cover the virtue ethics component of an ethics course, either in conjunction with one of the larger ethics texts -- many include no material on virtue theory, or very little -- or with free standing editions; as the centrepiece of a course devoted entirely to virtue theory; or as a component of an introductory course that includes a section on ethics. Part 1 includes readings from five classic thinkers with importantly distinct approaches to virtue. Part 2 provides five new essays from contemporary thinkers that apply virtue theories to the resolution of practical moral problems. Jennifer Welchman provides a general Introduction on the history of virtue theory,…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




Classic virtue theories


Nicomachean ethics


On the happy life


Moral letters to Lucilius


An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue



An enquiry concerning the principles of morals



On the genealogy of morality



Beyond good and evil




Contemporary readings in virtue theory


Applying virtue ethics to our treatment of the other animals



Seneca : stoic philosophy as a guide to living



Francis Hutcheson : virtue ethics and public policy



Humean humanity versus hate



Nietzsche's virtues and the virtues of business