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Virtue and the Moral Life
Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
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2014
Summary
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society’s common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers’ sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8231-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8232-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
1 Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics Today No access
2 Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of Virtue No access
3 Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic Integrity No access
4 Moral Grief and Reflective Virtue No access
5 Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer Culture No access
6 Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising “Nones” No access
7 Sin, Sickness, and Transgression No access
8 Making More Space for Moral Failure No access
9 Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue No access
10 Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love No access
