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Virtues and their vices /edited by Kevin Timpe and Craig A. Boyd.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford. United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 510 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191744549
  • 9780198753667
Other title:
  • Virtues & their vices [Spine title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • AG241 .V578 2014
Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT: Use of this publication is limited to a maximum of the greater of (a) 20% of any single Work and (b) two chapters or articles, in any single course.
Contents:
Introduction / Kevin Timpe and Craig A. Boyd -- Prudence / W. Jay Wood -- The virtues of justice / David Schmidtz and John Thrasher -- Fortitude and the conflict of frameworks / Daniel McInerny -- Temperance / Robert C. Roberts -- Lust and chastity / Colleen McCluskey -- Gluttony and abstinence / Robert B. Kruschwitz -- Avarice and liberality / Andrew Pinsent -- Sloth: some historical reflections on laziness, effort, and resistance to the demands of love / Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung -- A study of virtuous and vicious anger / Zac Cogley -- Envy and its discontents / Timothy Perrine and Kevin Timpe -- Pride and humility: tempering the desire for excellence / Craig A. Boyd -- Trust / Linda Zagzebski -- Episteme: knowledge and understanding / John Greco -- Sophia: theoretical wisdom and contemporary epistemology / Jason Baehr -- Faith as attitude, trait, and virtue / Robert Audi -- On hope / Charles Pinches -- Charity: how friendship with God unfolds in love for others / Paul J. Wadell -- Virtue in theology / Stephen Pope -- Virtue in political thought: on civic virtue in political liberalism / Christie Hartley and Lori Watson -- Virtue in positive psychology / Everett L. Worthington, Jr, Caroline Lavelock, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, David J. Jennings, II, Aubrey L. Gartner, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook -- Moral psychology, neuroscience, and virtue: from moral judgment to moral character / James A. Van Slyke -- Virtue and a feminist ethics of care / Ruth Groenhout.
Summary: This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.
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Introduction / Kevin Timpe and Craig A. Boyd -- Prudence / W. Jay Wood -- The virtues of justice / David Schmidtz and John Thrasher -- Fortitude and the conflict of frameworks / Daniel McInerny -- Temperance / Robert C. Roberts -- Lust and chastity / Colleen McCluskey -- Gluttony and abstinence / Robert B. Kruschwitz -- Avarice and liberality / Andrew Pinsent -- Sloth: some historical reflections on laziness, effort, and resistance to the demands of love / Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung -- A study of virtuous and vicious anger / Zac Cogley -- Envy and its discontents / Timothy Perrine and Kevin Timpe -- Pride and humility: tempering the desire for excellence / Craig A. Boyd -- Trust / Linda Zagzebski -- Episteme: knowledge and understanding / John Greco -- Sophia: theoretical wisdom and contemporary epistemology / Jason Baehr -- Faith as attitude, trait, and virtue / Robert Audi -- On hope / Charles Pinches -- Charity: how friendship with God unfolds in love for others / Paul J. Wadell -- Virtue in theology / Stephen Pope -- Virtue in political thought: on civic virtue in political liberalism / Christie Hartley and Lori Watson -- Virtue in positive psychology / Everett L. Worthington, Jr, Caroline Lavelock, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, David J. Jennings, II, Aubrey L. Gartner, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook -- Moral psychology, neuroscience, and virtue: from moral judgment to moral character / James A. Van Slyke -- Virtue and a feminist ethics of care / Ruth Groenhout.

This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.

COPYRIGHT: Use of this publication is limited to a maximum of the greater of (a) 20% of any single Work and (b) two chapters or articles, in any single course.

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