Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect
The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the c
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Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect
Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect
Elisa Grimi Editor
Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect
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Editor Elisa Grimi European Society for Moral Philosophy Milan, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-15859-0 ISBN 978-3-030-15860-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15860-6
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Contents
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Some Questions About Virtue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Haldane
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Virtue as the Order of Inner Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margarita Mauri Alvarez
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Virtues. The Aristotelian-Thomistic Line of Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Wladika
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The Soft Presence of Wittgenstein in Virtue Ethics and His Hard Significance for Its Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marco Damonte
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The Humean Sentimentalist Learns from the Aristotelian Anscombe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Slote
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Wisdom and the Origins of Moral Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Randall Curren
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Some Complexities of Categorizing Character Traits . . . . . . . . . . . Christian B. Miller
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Does Virtue Ethics Allow Us to Make Better Judgments of the Actions of Others? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liezl van Zyl
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Virtue Ethics, Teleology, and Religion in the Aristotelian Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Christopher D. Owens
10 Virtue Without Law? A Problem and Prospect for Virtue Ethic
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