Varieties of Virtue Ethics [Hardcover]

This book explores recent developments in ethics of virtue. While acknowledging the Aristotelian roots of modern virtue ethics  with its emphasis on the moral importance of character  this collection recognizes that more recent accounts of virtue have been shaped by many other influences, such as Aquinas, Hume, Nietzsche, Hegel and Marx, Confucius and Lao-tzu. The authors also examine the bearing of virtue ethics on other disciplines such as psychology, sociology and theology, as well as attending to some wider public, professional and educational implications of the ethics of virtue. This pioneering book will be invaluable to researchers and students concerned with the many contemporary varieties and applications of virtue ethics.?

Introduction

Part 1: Philosophical Varieties of Virtue and Virtue Ethics

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Chapter 1: The Varieties of Virtue Ethics

By Robert C. Roberts

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Chapter 2: Which variety of virtue ethics?

By Julia Annas,

Chapter 3: Against idealization in virtue ethics

Howard Curzer

Chapter 4: Virtue ethics in the medieval period

By John Haldane

Chapter 5: Iris Murdoch and the varieties of virtue ethics, By Konrad Banicki

Chapter 6: Confucian and Daoist virtue ethics

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Part 2: Virtue Ethics in the Wider Academic Context

Chapter 7: Aristotelian ethical virtue: naturalism without measure

By Jonathan Jacobs

Chapter 8: Categorising character: moving beyond the Aristotelian framework

By Christian Miller

Chapter 9: Human practices and Gods making-good in Aquinas virtue ethics