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Informationen zum Autor William Werpehowski holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Karl Barth and Christian Ethics: Living in Truth (2014) and American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (2002).Kathryn Getek Soltis is assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University. Klappentext The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness. Zusammenfassung Virtue and the Moral Life brings together distinguished philosophers and theologians with younger scholars of consummate promise to produce ten essays that engage both academics and students of ethics. This collection explores the role virtues play in identifying the good life and the good society. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefacePart I: Why Virtue?Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics TodayJames F. Keenan, S.J.Chapter Two: Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of VirtueJennifer A. HerdtPart II: Virtue, Conscience, and Public LifeChapter Three: Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic IntegrityMargaret Urban WalkerChapter Four: Moral Grief and Reflective VirtueMark A. WilsonPart III: Virtue, Children, and the FamilyChapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer CultureMary M. Doyle RocheChapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising 'Nones': Practicing Courage and HumilityJulie Hanlon RubioPart IV: Virtue and Moral FailureChapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance TodayJean PorterChapter Eight: Making More Space for Moral FailureLisa TessmanPart V: Virtue and the Challenge of OthernessChapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie SchillingerChapter Ten: Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri...
