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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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- I: The Cardinal Virtues
- 1: Jay Wood: Prudence
- 2: David Schmidtz and John Thrasher: The Virtues of Justice
- 3: Daniel McInerny: Fortitude and the Conflict of Frameworks
- 4: Robert C. Roberts: Temperance
- II: The Capital Vices and Corrective Virtues
- 5: Colleen McCluskey: Lust and Chastity
- 6: Robert B. Kruschwitz: Gluttony and Abstinence
- 7: Andrew Pinsent: Avarice and Liberality
- 8: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung: Sloth: Some Historical Reflections on Laziness, Effort, and Resistance to the Demands of Love
- 9: Zac Cogley: A Study in Virtuous and Vicious Anger
- 10: Timothy Perrine and Kevin Timpe: Envy and Its Discontents
- 11: Craig A. Boyd: Pride and Humility: Tempering the Desire for Excellence
- III: Intellectual Virtues
- 12: Linda Zagzebski: Trust
- 13: John Greco: Episteme: Knowledge and Understanding
- 14: Jason Baehr: Sophia: Theoretical Wisdom and Contemporary Epistemology,
- IV: The Theological Virtues
- 15: Robert Audi: Faith as Attitude, Trait, and Virtue
- 16: Charles Pinches: On Hope
- 17: Paul J. Wadell: Charity: How Friendship with God Unfolds in Love for Others
- V: Virtue Across the Disciplines
- 18: Stephen Pope: Virtue in Theology
- 19: Christie Hartley and Lori Watson: Virtue in Political Thought: On Civic Virtue and Political Liberalism
- 20: Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Caroline Lavelock, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, David J. Jennings, II, Aubrey L. Gartner, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook: Virtue in Positive Psychology
- 21: James A. Van Slyke: Moral Psychology, Neuroscience, and Virtue: From Moral Judgment to Moral Character
- 22: Ruth Groenhout: Virtue and A Feminist Ethics of Care
About the author
Dr. Kevin Timpe is professor of philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, having previously been a research fellow at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. His research focuses primarily on the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility, and issues in the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives, 2e and the editor of Arguing about Religion and Metaphysics and God.
Dr. Craig A. Boyd is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and Liaison for Philosophy and Theological Studies at St. Louis University. He has published two books: A Shared Morality: A Narrative Defense of Natural Law Ethics and Visions of Agapé: Problems and Possibilities in Divine and Human Love.
Summary
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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As a single-stop, comprehensive resource on the virtues and vices, this volume is probably the best we now have.
