Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics [Hardcover]

The correlation between person and environment has long been a central focus of phenomenological analysis. While phenomenology is usually understood as a descriptive discipline showing how essential features of the human encounter with things and people in the world are articulated, phenomenology is also based on ethical concerns. Husserl himself, the founder of the movement, gave several lecture courses on ethics. This volume focuses on one trend in ethicsvirtue ethicsand its connection to phenomenology. The essays explore how phenomenology contributes to this field of ethics and clarifies some of its central issues, such asflourishingandgood character traits. The volume initiates a conversation with virtue ethicists that is underrepresented in the current literature.

Phenomenology and Virtue Ethicsoffers contributions from prominent phenomenologists who explore the following issues: how phenomenology is connected to the ancient Greek or Christian virtue tradition, how phenomenology and its foundational thinkers are oriented toward virtue ethics, and how phenomenology is itself a virtue discipline. The focus on phenomenology and virtue ethics in a single volume is the first of its kind.

Notes on Contributors
Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: an IntroductionKevin Hermberg
Part I: Phenomenology and the Tradition
1.PhainomenonandLogosin Aristotle's EthicsLawrence J. Hatab
2. 'Disimpropriation' and Infused Virtue: The Question of (Christian) Virtue Ethics in the Phenomenology of Michel HenryMichelle Rebidoux
3. Being and Virtuousness: Toward a Platonic-Heideggerian Virtue EthicsMatthew King
4. Horizon Intentionality and Aristotelian FriendshipEric Chelstrom
5. Value, Affectivity, and Virtue in Aristotle, Scheler, and von HildebrandGregory B. Sadler
Part II: Theoretical and Contemporary Comparative Accounts
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